I discovered another bug-report which sounds different but is related. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/972324
On July 13, 2012, David Lichteblau (david-lichteblau) was the last person to comment, noting that the issue is because a non-$DISPLAY specific file owned by the user who starts the X-server gets dropped in $TMP, and that prevents any other servers from running. What this does, in fact is to prevent organizations from using Xvfb to provide shared desktops for users. Fixing this bug would be a huge favor to my department where we would like to provide x11vnc + Xvfb as an option for remote desktop to hundreds of users per server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067917 Title: Cannot launch more than one xvfb instance as different users To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1067917/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
