Bug 8001

Summary:	startx yealds "waiting for x server to shutdown
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	sam templeman <batfck420>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description sam templeman 1999-12-26 15:48:14 UTC

boot...login...password ok
enter   startx
message "unable to lock ice authority file/.root/.ice authority"
message2 "waiting for x server to shutdown"

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-27 08:38:59 UTC

assign to xfree86

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-02-03 21:08:59 UTC

you must have some system configuration problem.  We can't duplicate this here
nor has anyone else ever reported it.  Such a common command would surely lead
tons of bug reports if it was a problem out of the box.