why cann't I startx remotely?

From: gino (mizhael_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:01:49 -0700

Hi folks,

I started my Exceed locally and used ssh to connect to the remote side Linux
box. I have set X tunneling to true.
In the ssh session of connecting to the remote machine, I did the following:

setenv DISPLAY xx.xx.xx.xx:0.0
startx

where xx.xx.xx.xx is my local PC IP address.

Then I got the following error:
--------------------------------------
Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.
--------------------------------------

I am sure I have X window running active on my remote Linux box, so there
can only be one X session?

What can I do?

Thanks a lot,

-Gino

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