I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. It sounds like you logged into a remote machine and tried to start the X server there, but you already have an X server running on that machine so it complains, which is the expected behavior. What am I missing? Mark. On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Hatham Suliman wrote: > Hi there, > > I am accessing a remote working server called moondb from my desktop through putty utility and after I got connected as root I issued command startx but got this error message on my console: > > [root@moondb xserver]# startx > > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock > and start again. > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send > the full server output, not just the last messages. > Please report problems to xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxxx > 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. > > > ANY HELP IS APPRCIATED > hay > thx > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
