From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 31 06:48:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07053 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 06:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nyc-ny75-37.ix.netcom.com (nyc-ny75-37.ix.netcom.com [209.109.228.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07048 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 06:48:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@nyc-ny75-37.ix.netcom.com) Received: from spork (helo=localhost) by nyc-ny75-37.ix.netcom.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zvjMZ-0005rq-00; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:46:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:46:10 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Gary Jennejohn cc: fbsdqs Subject: Re: Two X servers at once In-Reply-To: <199812311005.LAA15036@peedub.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. That results in the same error messages. > > --- > 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 > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message