[Xquartz-dev] problem with X11 lockfiles in /tmp

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Wed Jul 14 19:39:36 PDT 2010


I am seeing it now on my other machine... Earlier was not with the 2.5.1 config... so something definitely changed.  Please open a bug report at http://xquartz.macosforge.org 

Thanks,
Jeremy

On Jul 14, 2010, at 17:11, Kyle wrote:

> Same exact symptoms for me.  Downloaded 2.5.1 for Leopard and ran the installer.  Nothing special or unique in my configuration as far as I know.
> 
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:13:47 PDT, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> Those files should be deleted upon exit.  I just verified that they are removed here...  Anything "special" about your configuration?
>> 
>> On Jul 14, 2010, at 09:47, Dave Ray wrote:
>> 
>>> When I run X11, it creates lockfiles
>>> /tmp/.X0-lock and /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
>>> 
>>> If I quit X11 normally and run it again, it creates lockfiles:
>>> /tmp/.X1-lock and /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
>>> 
>>> Pretty soon my /tmp directory looks like:
>>> /tmp/.X0-lock
>>> /tmp/.X1-lock
>>> /tmp/.X2-lock
>>> /tmp/.X3-lock
>>> ...
>>> and
>>> /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
>>> /tmp/.X11-unix/X1
>>> /tmp/.X11-unix/X2
>>> /tmp/.X11-unix/X3
>>> ...
> 
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