Re: X server already running?

2007-12-02 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Kevin Porter wrote: (Talking of vim, if anyone can tell me how to paste into a cygwin/X/vim window I'd be extremely grateful. My usual cumbersome workaround is to quit my vim session and fire up gvim to do the paste!). I don't believe this has been answered. First off,

X server already running?

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Porter
Hi, I've rebooted after a crash (I'm on XP, something else took XP down, not cygwin/X!), and now when I run startx I get a popup error message telling me a fatal error has occurred and I should look at /tmp/XWin.log for further info. /tmp/XWin.log says: -- START /tmp/XWin.log --

RE: X server already running?

2007-11-26 Thread Phil Betts
Kevin Porter wrote on Monday, November 26, 2007 9:08 AM:: /tmp/XWin.log says: -- START /tmp/XWin.log -- _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any

Re: X server already running?

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Porter
Thanks Phil, All my googling for a solution pointed to the /tmp/.X11-unix directory but unfortunately it didn't exist, that's why I was thinking maybe an errant pid file somewhere. I've been lucky this time actually, a second reboot has just fixed the problem! (Unlike the previous time I