On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 28/10/2010 14:09, Chris Fouts wrote: >> >> After power up, I log in on a Vista 32 machine on a non-admin account, >> and start XWin server via power shell by calling the startxwin.exe >> executable. Sometimes XWin fails to start and I get a pop up that says >> (paraphrase) "Failed to create /tmp/.X0.lock file" I tried using the >> -nolock option to no avail. How can I alleviate this? Thanks! > > Unfortunately, we have some bugs which prevent the X server from shutting > down cleaning and removing it's lock file under some circumstances. But > that should only causing problems if you are non-admin and the previous run > was under a different account, which doesn't seem to be what you are saying > here? > > Are you sure you are supplying the -nolock option correctly? The syntax for > adding it to the startmenu shortcut is unfortunately rather obscure, but [1] > should explain it. > > Are you sure you get the same error message with -nolock? > >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > If that doesn't help you resolve your problem, can you supply the additional > information suggested by the problem report link above? > >> Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ >> FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > > [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer >
Thanks. I'm starting the XWin server in a PowerShell script, so I'm figuring out now how to put the quotes after the -c option as indicated in the help page. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/