[plug] Help required, after crash cannot start X

[Mike Holland]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, brockie at iinet.net.au wrote:

> can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock

Did you look at that file? Does it exist? Permissions?
Deleting stale locks can help, but an X server should be running as root
and able to read anything.
 My wild guess is that your X server is running without SUID.

Which X version? Check for SUID permissions on Xwrapper or your server.

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