I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found.
Please see the logs below.
IN0335-01[48]+ cd /tmp
IN0335-01[49]+ ls
XWin.log
IN0335-01[50]+ ls -al
total 8
drwxrwxrwt+ 2 asura mkgroup-l-d0 Nov 13 15:15 .
drwxrwx---+ 12 asura mkgroup-l-d0 Nov 13 13:01 ..
-rw-r--r--
bali asur wrote:
I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found.
IN0335-01[51]+ startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520
xauth: unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520, use
/home/pom
o/.serverauth.2520-n
xauth:
Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk writes:
Can you try launching the server via xinit instead of startx ?
Your problem seems to be with xauth writing to a file.
Perhaps you could run something like xauth -v add :0 . `mcookie` and try to
work out why it can't write to the file it
