From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22225 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2004 20:57:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22217 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2004 20:57:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO central.ixn.com) (65.19.132.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2004 20:57:42 -0000 Received: from msu.edu (office.ixn.com [68.23.74.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by central.ixn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i05KvcMN075110 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:57:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FF9CFBB.8070907@msu.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 20:57:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start References: <741C3B0BAF7B1F4F8FCC50AC4766CBF005011B@phoenix.ossconnexn.com> In-Reply-To: <741C3B0BAF7B1F4F8FCC50AC4766CBF005011B@phoenix.ossconnexn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 List-Id: Greg, Look at /tmp/XWin.log. Harold Greg Jewell wrote: > Hi All, > > I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive the following error: > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > I searched the archives and saw that others were having the same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but no solution was offered. > > I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources this morning, but none of them produced different results. Other than the few times that I've installed the software this morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously. (It's a new box.) > > Does anybody know how to resolve this? > > > Thanks, > Greg Jewell > >