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Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

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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 server: connection refused

Check permissions and free space:

ls -ld /tmp
ls -l /tmp/.X0-lock
df /tmp

If /tmp/.X0-lock already exists, is there another instance of the X 
server running (with that PID? Or did a previous instance crash without 
removing it?

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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/tmp/.X0-lock Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> - 2017-05-06 01:20 +0200
  Re: /tmp/.X0-lock Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-05-06 01:30 +0200
    Re: /tmp/.X0-lock Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> - 2017-05-06 02:30 +0200
      Re: /tmp/.X0-lock Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-05-06 03:00 +0200
        Re: /tmp/.X0-lock Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com> - 2017-05-06 04:20 +0200
          Re: /tmp/.X0-lock Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-08 14:20 +0200

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