Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:06:30PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I can still > use the sysvinit boot option that presents a graphical login and after that > starts the X server. (I then have to run 'service network restart' to connect > to the Internet and there is complaining about that being de

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Does the PID in the lock file correspond to a running process? > > ps -f `cat /tmp/.X0-lock` I get nothing from that command > Are there any running instances of an X server? > > ps -fC Xorg UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 2994 2812 0 17:36 tty7 00:01:23 /

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/05/17 12:09, Charles Kroeger wrote: not that I know of how do you tell if there's another X server running. I mean there is after I do a sysvinit boot (from the grub advanced menu) but on a reboot of course the X server obviously shuts down (or does it?) Does the PID in the lock file corr

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
>ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 20480 May 5 18:58 /tmp (looks good) >ls -l /tmp/.S0-lock -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 May 5 17:36 /tmp/.X0-lock >df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 245996848 42724396 203256068 18% / > If /tmp/.X0-lock alre

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/05/17 11:06, Charles Kroeger wrote: running freshly upgraded kernel image 4.9.0.3 on normal boot with startx command but getting the following error message from (X server) xorg: could not create lock file in /tmp/.X0-lock (the contents of, are the numbers 2994) unable to connect to the X s