Re: X11 beta 0.2 fails to launch from anywhere but Administrator's account
Re: X11 beta 0.2 fails to launch from anywhere but Administrator's account
- Subject: Re: X11 beta 0.2 fails to launch from anywhere but Administrator's account
- From: Ettore Aldrovandi <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:03:39 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:32:30 -0800 Haroon Sheikh <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> Paul Calamai wrote:
>>> Has anyone else observed the following behaviour with beta 0.2 (that
>>> didn't exist with beta 0.1).
>>> -X11 launches just fine from the Administrator's account (used to
>>> install X11) but fails from other accounts with the following console
>>> msg:
>>>>
>>>> Fatal server error:
>>>> Could not create server lock file: /tmp/.X0-lock
>>
>> You have to remove the lock file manually after quitting X11.app.
>>
>> This is actually a bug that got worse in beta-2.0.
>>
>> In 1.0, the lock file was left behind only when you did not quit
>> X11.app via its "Quit" menu option. Now in 10.2 it is always left
>> behind, no matter how you quit X11.app. Not nice.
>>
>Thanks for finding this. We've fixed it for the next version (cannot
>comment on when that will be).
>
>haroon
That would be great! Actually, what I see is that _both_ the lock and the
socket in /tmp/.X11-unix/ are left behind. (I usually launch X11 by running
'open -a X11' in a terminal window, if that makes any difference.)
--Ettore
Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics - email@hidden
Florida State University - http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA - +1 (850) 664-9717 (FAX: 4053)
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