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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