[Parti-discuss] reconnecting to an abandoned Xvfb-for-Xpra server

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:14 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> Okay, here's what's happening -- when you run 'xpra upgrade', it
> attaches to the existing Xvfb, notices that there's an xpra server
> already there, and asks it to exit quietly. But, of course, it
> doesn't, because it's wedged, that's why you're restarting... (I wish
> I knew why. Possibly some bug in the new clipboard code?)

Yeah.  I wondered if the existing xpra processes was what was getting in
the way of "upgrade" working.

> Try running 'kill -9' on all the xpra upgrade/xpra start processes,
> and then try running 'xpra upgrade' again and see if that helps.

Unfortunately, it seems that in the meanwhile, since my last posting,
all of the xpra processes as well as the Xvfb have all exited.

> Don't forget the -9 on the kill command; without it, the processes
> might still manage to do an 'orderly shutdown', which would kill the
> Xvfb that you want to preserve.

Ahhh.  Good thinking... for next time, anyway.  :-)

b.

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