Bug 8001 - startx yealds "waiting for x server to shutdown
Summary: startx yealds "waiting for x server to shutdown
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-12-26 15:48 UTC by sam templeman
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-03 21:08:00 UTC
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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.
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