X-Server restarting Issue

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.co.uk
Tue Aug 19 02:31:17 PDT 2008


Sounds like you didn't shutdown X correctly, or it crashed on shutdown
and didn't remove lock files. Or potentially it really is still running.

Alan.

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 14:45 +0530, Deepak Bhatia wrote:
> Dear Alan,
> 
>  
> 
> We are using X11R7.1 in which when we want to change the multimonitor
> mode from Clone/Independent/Expand, we stop the current X-Server
> running.
> 
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> 
> PID_X=`cat /tmp/.X0-lock`
> 
> wait $PID_X;
> 
>  
> 
> PID_X gets the PID of the current X Server running.
> 
>  
> 
> Then we start the X Server. But we get the following error
> 
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> 
> -XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener:…SocketCreateListener() Failing
> 
>  
> 
> Cannot estabilish any listening sockets – Make sure that an X-Server
> isn’t already running.
> 
>  
> 
> Kindly let us know why we are getting this error.
> 
>  
> 
> Best Regards
> 
>  
> 
> Deepak Bhatia
> 
> 




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