Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

Thu Nov 13 21:40:00 GMT 2008

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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Sadly, I have no theory about how this could be happening, except perhaps it
> could be related to 'unusual' permissions on /tmp which could somehow let you
> create but not rename a file (so the output of 'ls -al /tmp' might enlighten)

/tmp should be 1777.

Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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