Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file?

Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file?

[Chris Fouts]

After power up, I log in on a Vista 32 machine on a non-admin account,
and start XWin server via power shell by calling the startxwin.exe
executable. Sometimes XWin fails to start and I get a pop up that says
(paraphrase) "Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file" I tried using the
-nolock option to no avail. How can I alleviate this? Thanks!

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Re: Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file?

[Jon TURNEY]

On 28/10/2010 14:09, Chris Fouts wrote:
> After power up, I log in on a Vista 32 machine on a non-admin account,
> and start XWin server via power shell by calling the startxwin.exe
> executable. Sometimes XWin fails to start and I get a pop up that says
> (paraphrase) "Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file" I tried using the
> -nolock option to no avail. How can I alleviate this? Thanks!

Unfortunately, we have some bugs which prevent the X server from shutting down 
cleaning and removing it's lock file under some circumstances.  But that 
should only causing problems if you are non-admin and the previous run was 
under a different account, which doesn't seem to be what you are saying here?

Are you sure you are supplying the -nolock option correctly? The syntax for 
adding it to the startmenu shortcut is unfortunately rather obscure, but [1] 
should explain it.

Are you sure you get the same error message with -nolock?

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

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Re: Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file?

[Chris Fouts]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 28/10/2010 14:09, Chris Fouts wrote:
>>
>> After power up, I log in on a Vista 32 machine on a non-admin account,
>> and start XWin server via power shell by calling the startxwin.exe
>> executable. Sometimes XWin fails to start and I get a pop up that says
>> (paraphrase) "Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file" I tried using the
>> -nolock option to no avail. How can I alleviate this? Thanks!
>
> Unfortunately, we have some bugs which prevent the X server from shutting
> down cleaning and removing it's lock file under some circumstances.  But
> that should only causing problems if you are non-admin and the previous run
> was under a different account, which doesn't seem to be what you are saying
> here?
>
> Are you sure you are supplying the -nolock option correctly? The syntax for
> adding it to the startmenu shortcut is unfortunately rather obscure, but [1]
> should explain it.
>
> Are you sure you get the same error message with -nolock?
>
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> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file
>
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> Jon TURNEY
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>

Thanks. I'm starting the XWin server in a PowerShell script, so I'm
figuring out now how to put the quotes after the -c option as
indicated in the help page.

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