Can't start X twice

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Mon Nov 7 09:34:10 UTC 2005


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:29:35AM +0200, Konstantinos Koukopoulos wrote:
> > Anyone knows if this bug happens on GNU/Linux too?
> 
> On my Debian GNU/Linux unstable it doesn't happen.
> 
> One difference is that on GNU/kfreebsd X creates a socket 
> called /tmp/.X11-unix/X  whereas on GNU/linux I get a socket 
> called /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 (both servers run on display 0). Apart from this 
> difference a casual glance of related files doesn't give me any other hint as 
> to what could be the problem. One more semi-exceptional thing is 
> that /tmp/.X11-unix has the sticky bit set.

Strange.  Why would the paths be different?

Maybe there's a build time condition that makes it work different for Linux or
something.  Anyone has a FreeBSD system at hand (with X11R6.8) to tell which
is the path there?

-- 
Robert Millan



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