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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: jan.chludzinski@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Problem starting XWin Server
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1D8DBA.2040409@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADqjQ-KNDdN9WkTGtfRCEGtMbjoebFdgsX5dO=Qs1gn4nemO3g@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/07/2011 09:10, Jan Chludzinski wrote:
> I just did a complete installation of X11 from Cygwin 1.7 setup.exe.
> But when I try to start the "XWin Server" using the "Start" menu
> nothing happens. If I try either "startxwin" or "startx" or "xinit"
> from the BASH shell I get:
>
> giving up.
> startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> Any suggestions?
Looking at the XWin.0.log you attached, it looks like the X server is starting
up successfully.
If clients are unable to connect, this might be due to firewall configuration
or other software which interferes with cygwin sockets (see [1] in the
Cygwin/X FAQ for some suggestions)
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cannot-open-display
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CADqjQ-LnaUZWLPf9gtVkTkLZs0gM+xh7xAPO57kDm0W5xFjdVA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-12 21:16 ` Jan Chludzinski
2011-07-13 12:30 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2011-07-14 14:11 ` Jan Chludzinski
2011-07-19 16:15 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-07-31 18:54 ` Jan Chludzinski
2011-08-08 16:43 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-08-22 17:30 ` D Jackson
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