Server is laready active for display 0
 

Hi all,

I update madriva and cannot start "startx". When I start display login window and I logged and again login window, so again and again. I went to console and try but get a mesage

"Fatal server error"
Server is already active for display 0
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up.

xinit: resources temporaraly unavailable (error 3) unable to connect to server

xinit: no such process (error 3): server error.

If any body can help me will be thankful.

Thanks.

LNX-user

From console read the error logs

Last line message
"$Display is not set or cannot connect to the X server"

"couldnot open display , check shell DISPLAY variable, and export or setenv it!

"Waiting for x server to shut down"
[user_name@localhost ~]$

What is "synaptics"?

Try reboot !
(I am kidding :o)

What is your X session manager, gdm, kdm ?
Is it a wrong password login error ?

Maybe check these files permissions just in case: ~/.Xauthority and ~/.ICEauthority
(you could as well delete them and attempt to login again)

And show few more than last line.

"synaptics" is software for touchpad.

I start once X server by xorg.conf & xorg.conf.old and try again "startx". Now I have I lost all my bookmarks and other setings. I will first finish that all and wil try to restart computer and will see, then let you know.

I don't known how this is done on Mandriva, maybe startx started your root user X session. Did you have opportunity login as normal user after starting X? If not start X server by login manager, for example in Kubuntu it is done by for GNOME it will be

kdm srvice and gdm srvice are unknown to mandriva.

I have the following warning and error,

WARNING: intel:No matching device section for instance (BusID OCI:0:2:1) found

ERROR: intel(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11
ERROR: No input driver matching 'synaptics'

LNX-user

You have something wrong in your xorg.conf. If you have some new xorg, backup your xorg.conf and remove it from /etc/X11 for testing. New version doesn't need it to start. If not - show it.

For starting kdm, you can check

Is nor not working. Server error 3.

Dear eSelix,
I am thinking to install on new year Ubuntu. Please help me install Ubuntu with clearing complete Mandriva and only ubuntu. Thanks in Advance and happy new year 2012.

If you want to erase everythig from disk, just download CD image, burn it and boot PC from it, during intallation choose installing on whole disk. If not make a backup of important data first. Here you have good installation guide As in Mandriva you probably used KDM, consider installing Kubuntu. I think installation a fresh, newest system is good option, but changing distribution will not magically get rid problems.

Happy New Year.

Thanks for all. I have now UBUNTU latest version and really I have no problem and working very good and smooth.

Thanks again.