Bug#2457: var/run/X0-lock (and others?) should be removed at boot

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> Package: xbase
> Version: 3.1.2-7
>
> If the system crashes with an X server running then it often won't
> come up again cleanly because /var/run/X0-lock is left over.
>
> Also, if I invoke a second X server (from inittab, say), am I
> as sysadmin responsible for cleaning up the lockfile or is the xbase
> package responsible ?

I've changed /etc/init.d/boot to not only clean out /tmp
on bootup but /var/run and /var/lock as well (only files, it
leaves directories alone). That will help, me thinks.

Mike.
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