x doesn't start

[spinglass2000]

Hi
suse11.1 on sr130 vaio laptop
x doesn't start while it work in safe mode. the following message appears in the text mode:

Xauth: creating new authority file /root/serverauth.5409

Fatal server error:
server is already active for display 0
if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up.
xinit: resource temporarily unavailable (error 11): unable to connect to X server
xinit: no such process (errorno 3): server error.


thanks for help

[gogalthorp]

I don't think X is allowed when in safe mode. Safe mode is safe because it does not load all the processes you normally load.

You should be able to start X by leaving the safe mode to the GUI init level

type

init 5

init levels

0 shut down
1 single user
2 unused
3 terminal mult-user
4 unused
5 GUI
6 reboot

[spinglass2000]

By safe mode I meant x11failsafe which works well

I check the startx in GUI init level
the same error message appeared

[gogalthorp]

X will not start again if it is already running.

init 3

will shut down the X windows and stop any running GUI

init 5 will initialize X and start the default GUI in term 6 (ctr-alt-F6)

in any case you must be root