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Subject: Re: "Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock" problem  (answer to FAQ  3.4.  does not solve the problem)
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Leonardo Vanneschi wrote:
> 
> I have tried to apply the solutions in the FAQ page (FAQ 3.4), but they
> do not work. More precisely, what I tried to do as follows:
> 
>   1. Try rm -rf /tmp; mkdir /tmp ; chmod 1777 /tmp
>   2. Try starting the server with -nolock (e.g. if you use startxwin.bat 
> or startxwin.sh to start the server, add -nolock to the XWin line in 
> that script; if you use xinit or startx, run it as xinit -- -nolock or 
> startx -- -nolock)
> 
> None of the two solutions worked.
> 
> I am attaching the output of cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out
> (please, see file cygcheck.out).
> 
> 
> Trying to solve the problem by myself, I have read some conversations on 
> this subject
> on various cygwin related mailing lists and I have seen that the output 
> of the command
> 'strace Xwin' may be helpful too. So, I attach it too (please, see file 
> straceXWin.out).

Well, I can tell from the strace output that this is failing in the same way 
as [1], but I still don't know why it happens...

    35   26331 [main] XWin 3360 link: -1 = link (/tmp/.tX0-lock, /tmp/.X0-lock)

If adding '-nolock' doesn't fix the problem, can you reply with the command 
you are using to start the server and the output of strace-ing that.

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[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-01/msg00027.html

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