[PLUG] X won't start! Help!!

[drew wymore]

remove /tmp/.X0-lock just for grins .. or type startx 0:1 and see what
happens ..

On 1/19/07, John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> OK, I may have found something. At the command line I typed
> "startx." That gave me the following:
>
> ---------------
> xauth: creating new authority file for /jome/jjj/.serverauth.5382
> xauth: creating new authority file for /jome/jjj/.serverauth
> xauth: creating new authority file for /jome/jjj/.serverauth
>
> Fatal server error
> Server is already active for display 0
>    If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>    and start again
>
> Xlib: Connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> giving up
> xinit: Unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
> ------------------
>
> I am guessing the problem is in the last five lines. Actually, in the
> two Xlib: lines -- something is screwed up in the connection to the
> X server.
>
> I googled on Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE and discovered a lot of
> people have had problems with this. Unfortunately, none of the
> suggested solutions that I have found have worked so far.
>
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