Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Ok, my archaeological investigations in this area have revealed that this > locking code probably wasn't enabled in 6.8.99. I don't think it is actually > giving any benefit, since we also have a native named mutex is used in the

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: > James Ertle wrote: >> Fatal server error: >> Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock > > As a workaround, you should be able to add "-nolock" to the command line used > to start Xwin (in startxwin.bat, I'm guessing, in your case). > > Since a few people seem to have this problem, I

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Sadly, I have no theory about how this could be happening, except perhaps it > could be related to 'unusual' permissions on /tmp which could somehow let you > create but not rename a file (so the output of 'ls -al /tmp' might enli

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ertle wrote: > Fatal server error: > Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock As a workaround, you should be able to add "-nolock" to the command line used to start Xwin (in startxwin.bat, I'm guessing, in your case). Since a few people seem to have this problem, I'd like to get a resolution. Sa