I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.  It sounds
like you logged into a remote machine and tried to start the X server
there, but you already have an X server running on that machine so
it complains, which is the expected behavior.  What am I missing?


                        Mark.

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Hatham Suliman wrote:

> Hi there,
>  
> I am accessing a remote working server called moondb from my desktop through putty 
> utility and after I got connected as root I issued command startx but got this error 
> message on my console:
>  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] xserver]# startx
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0
>         If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>         and start again.
> 
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> giving up.
> xinit:  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
>  
> ANY HELP IS APPRCIATED 
> hay
> thx
> 
> 
> 
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