yancho@Ubuntu:~$ sudo startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/yancho/.serverauth.15171 Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. yancho@Ubuntu:~$