Re: [SOLVED] BScreen::BScreen: error, unable to use fluxbox.

On Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:17 +0200
Frank Lienhard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not a guru at all.
> But most programs set some sort of lock files. Guessing in this case
> it could be /tmp/.X0-lock. Sometimes in -in case of unclean shutdown-
> the lock file isn't removed, and stay in place.

Thanks Frank, you are a guru you know :). I had a look for .Xo-lock
in /tmp, found it and thought it looked odd so had a look at its
permissions. All owned by root! chowned it, logged off lxde and logged
straight into fluxbox! Brilliant, thanks!

Sharon. 
> 
> Do you have a command line after the X-Serverstart fails?
> If so you can do a cat on that file (in my running fluxbox session
> listing the processes give me: "cat .X0-lock 
>       3222
>  ps -ef|grep 3222
> root      3222  3219  0 10:23 tty7     00:01:56 /usr/bin/X11/X
> -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/slim.auth vt07"
> 
> so maybe deleting the .X0-lock from CLI and reboot could do the trick.
> 
> > I am totally unable to run fluxbox for the last two days and I get
> > this error message in the logs - 
> > ##############################
> > BScreen::BScreen: an error occured while querying the X server.
> > 	another window manager already running on display:0.0
> > Error: Couldn't find screens to manage.
> > Make sure you don't have another window manager running.
> > ##############################
> > there is nothing that seems to clear it, it even comes up after a
> > reboot or a shutdown. I've looked on the wiki and not being able to
> > find anything relating to it, so I'm hoping you gurus can come up
> > with a solution for me so that I can go back to my beloved fluxbox
> > again.
> > 
> > There is no other Windows Manager running, I've checked in 'pstree'
> > and its happened to a new user that I created after yesterdays
> > attempts. 
> > 
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