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Subject: Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:

> You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc.
>
> Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about detecting
> that the process owning the lock file is no longer running.

That was indeed the problem.  I didn't find them because my brain was
stuck looking for them in /var/log/...

Wouldn't it be nice if Cygwin cleaned up the /tmp directory each time
the computer is re-booted?  I don't know how that would work in real
life, however.

- Jim

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