startxwin: cannot unlink
Chris Green
chris@areti.co.uk
Sun Feb 22 12:13:00 GMT 2004
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:26:13PM -0800, Elvin Peterson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> $ ./startxwin.sh
> rm: cannot unlink `/tmp/.X11-unix/X0': Permission
> denied
> rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/.X11-unix':
> Directory not empty
>
> Attempt to remove the file using explorer fails with
> "file in use
> error". How do I remove this directory? Any help is
> appreciated.
>
> I have attached the output from cygcheck -svr to this
> mail.
> Thanks.
>
I had this problem a few weeks ago too, in the end I think I managed
to get rid of it from the windows command line. However I couldn't
make any sense of the errors about "file in use" and so on either.
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
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