X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Problem with XP Pro at work. Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:55:37 -0500 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com J. David Boyd wrote: [snip] > Then, my cygwin Xserver can't be started. (I didn't realize that the > cygwin installer wrote anything to my profile. Hardware settings, > maybe?). It didn't, the X server creates a lock file on Cygwin's /tmp directory, it prevents other users from starting it, and leaves the file after stopping. You changed users and now you can't start X, or anybody else different than the old user. The solution is to delete that file (I don't remember the exact name, something like /tmp/.X0). --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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