On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc. >> Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about detecting > that the process owning the lock file is no longer running. That was indeed the problem. I didn't find them because my brain was stuck looking for them in /var/log/... Wouldn't it be nice if Cygwin cleaned up the /tmp directory each time the computer is re-booted? I don't know how that would work in real life, however. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple