From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9939 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2010 22:39:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 9928 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2010 22:39:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TW_TX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp111.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO smtp111.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (209.191.68.76) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:39:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 57973 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2010 22:39:47 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (reply-to-list-only-lh-x@108.7.36.119 with plain) by smtp111.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 2010 15:39:47 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C2A7632.3040003@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:39:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin X\)" Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly References: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A89023617C1@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> In-Reply-To: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A89023617C1@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On 6/29/2010 10:50 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: > Hi, > > All was good, till a couple weeks ago when I added some packages to cygwin, > and several packages where also upgraded. Then xterm response time became > very slow. I tried a second upgrade yesterday, and now I cannot even start > an xterm, nor will startxwin start properly. This is a company computer > which has Symantec anti-virus. I tried disabling that as well. > > Here is the most obvious symptom: > > % echo $DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0.0 % /usr/bin/startxwin.exe > > > waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . .. giving up. > /usr/bin/startxwin: Socket type not supported (errno 124): unable to > connect to X server /usr/bin/startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server > error. > > Notice the value of $DISPLAY above, which does not match whats in XWin.0.log > (it has :0.0). No idea how/why that happens. Remove the DISPLAY setting. Update your installation (your cygwin package is out-of-date). You also have a couple of orphaned installations of Cygwin. Make sure those are all cleaned up/out. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/