Re: Shutting down a rouge Xserver

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First, use ps aux to verify that there is indeed an
extra X server running - if there is, nuke it with
'killall -TERM X'. If there's not, delete
/tmp/.X2-lock (you might have to be root), and try
again.

--- Peter Kozberski <pkoz@adam.com.au> wrote:
> I've been trying to compile openoffice on Netbsd
> 1.5.2 with X 3.3.6 on kde 2.2.2
> and after another try got:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 2
>         If this server is no longer running, remove
> /tmp/.X2-lock
>         and start again.
> 
> /bin/sh -c "cd
>
/usr/pkgsrc/misc/openoffice/work/oo_641_src/config_office/../instsetoo/*.pro/01/normal;
> TEMP=/usr/pkgsrc/misc/openoffice/work; export TEMP;
> DISPLAY=':2';export DISPLAY;
> ./setup -r:oo_setup.resp"
> *** Error code 1 (ignored)
> Installation was not successful.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I've tried to remedy this but .X2-lock keeps
> reappearing.
> 
> How do I remove the :2 display ie. stop the extra
> Xserver?
> 
> -- Peter Kozberski                                  
>    
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