X "server already running"?

[Kevin Porter]

Hi,

I've rebooted after a crash (I'm on XP, something else took XP down, not 
cygwin/X!), and now when I run startx I get a popup error message 
telling me a fatal error has occurred and I should look at /tmp/XWin.log 
for further info.

/tmp/XWin.log says:

-- START /tmp/XWin.log --

_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't 
already running
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

-- END /tmp/XWin.log --

I suspect a there's a pid file still hanging around for X from the 
previous crashed session? I can't find one, and googling for a solution 
turned up nothing useful.

Can anyone help? I hope so, I'm lost without cygwin / X / vim ! (Talking 
of vim, if anyone can tell me how to paste into a cygwin/X/vim window 
I'd be extremely grateful. My usual cumbersome workaround is to quit my 
vim session and fire up gvim to do the paste!).

regards,

- Kev

-- 
Kevin Porter
Advanced Web Construction Ltd
http://www.9ballpool.co.uk




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