I Cannot Start the X Server

[Jon TURNEY]

Todd Sankey wrote:
> I recently upgraded and ran into this problem as well.
> 
> I watched the XWin.exe process using ProcMon from 
> sysinternals.com and it doesn't look like a problem of 
> directory / file / user permissions as the FAQ would suggest.

I've updated the FAQ entry a bit.

> From ProcMon it looks like /tmp/.tX0-lock is being deleted 
> before it is moved.
> 
> Specifically, it is being opened with options: Synchronous IO 
> Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Delete On Close
> 
> The file is then closed and re-opened and the re-open fails 
> because it no longer exists.

Thanks for the information.

As you can see from LockServer() function in 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/os/utils.c, the sequence of
actions should be

open(tmp)
write()
close()
link(tmp,lock)
unlink(tmp)

and the failure seems to be that the link() doesn't succeed.  So having the 
file "delete-on-close" does explain what is seen.

Any insight into why "delete-on-close" is being requested?


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