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

Kyle mackyle at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 20:09:31 PDT 2010


Bug report created:

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/421

On Wed Jul 14 19:39:36 PDT 2010, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 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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