Looks like X died abruptly and didn't remove its lock... which is there exactly for preventing you to start another session on the same display :-).
Just remove the file its pointing you to : /tmp/.X0-lock Philippe On Wednesday 19 March 2003 10:26 am, Moustapha MEDANI wrote: > Hi, > > I am runing Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk whith XFree86 installed and > when I try to load X server by typing "startx" command, I get this error > message : > > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock > and start again. > > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send > the full server output, not just the last messages. > Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. > xinit: unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > Thanks for help. > > Moustapha. > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
