From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 31 02:08:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14414 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14406 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA15036 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:05:01 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199812311005.LAA15036@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: fbsdqs Subject: Re: Two X servers at once Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:31:05 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:05:01 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Spike Gronim writes: >When I typed "Xnest :1" it responded with: >_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed >_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running > >Fatal server error: >Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't >already running > >This is with XFree86 3.3.3 on a 2.2.8-STABLE system. > I had the same problem. You have to start it as root, otherwise it can't create the lock in /tmp. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message