I've installed Fedora Core 2 on a machine on my home network. X Windows (GNOME) is set up and works correctly, when I log in from the console.
However, when using Cygwin X from a different machine and trying to start an X session using startx it gives me the following error
Quote:
[root@fedora root]# 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.
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at
http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
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): unexpected signal 2.
That makes sense I guess because the fedora server already has an X session running at the console. I need to know how to create another X session for myself at a different computer.
I poked around about and found that the command
exec gnome-session helps somewhat in that an X session does get started, but many error messages pop up on the screen starting with:
Quote:
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.
The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
The last error message was:
Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
Help would be appreciated.
