From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 44124 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2015 20:23:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 44100 invoked by uid 89); 4 Apr 2015 20:23:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_INFOUSMEBIZ,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (HELO alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu) (18.7.68.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:23:24 +0000 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 8E.8C.22083.A3840255; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:23:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-ie0-f177.google.com (mail-ie0-f177.google.com [209.85.223.177]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as jjreisert@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id t34KNLlU010192 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 16:23:22 -0400 Received: by iebrs15 with SMTP id rs15so785892ieb.3 for ; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:23:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.3.199 with SMTP id e68mr5924362ioi.92.1428179001526; Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.19.77 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 13:23:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55195AF7.9070706@dronecode.org.uk> References: <55195AF7.9070706@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:23:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0 From: Jim Reisert AD1C To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc. > > Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about detecting > that the process owning the lock file is no longer running. That was indeed the problem. I didn't find them because my brain was stuck looking for them in /var/log/... Wouldn't it be nice if Cygwin cleaned up the /tmp directory each time the computer is re-booted? I don't know how that would work in real life, however. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple