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Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0
- From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 14:23:21 -0600
- Subject: Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0
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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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