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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, furriner67@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: problems installing Cygwin/x‏‏
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541981D0.7010305@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5408A572.80806@gmail.com>

On 04/09/2014 18:46, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 19:33, t s wrote:
>> I can't get cygwin/x to run. I downloaded the latest revision. Here is
>> what happened.

>> (EE) Fatal server error:
>> (EE) Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock

This is covered in the FAQ [1].

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file

Start the server with the -nolock option.

This option is turned on automatically when you have a FAT filesystem, 
but it seems this doesn't happen for exFAT filesystems.

Thanks for reporting this problem.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-17 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 17:33 t s
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2014-09-17 12:43   ` Jon TURNEY [this message]

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