Re: Problem starting XWin Server

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 14/07/2011 10:29, Jan Chludzinski wrote:
> First, THANKS!
> 
>     $ startxwin
>     giving up.
>     startxwin:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to
> connect to X server
>     startxwin:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Sorry, I hadn't quite grasped that is the whole of the output.

For obscure technical reasons, the output of XWin doesn't appear in a cmd.exe
terminal if cygwin wasn't started with CYGWIN=tty.

Can I suggest you install mintty, and try running startxwin from that, which
should produce some more informative output.

It looks like Cygwin/X FAQ 2.4 could do with some improvement :-)

> The server is never started - no process in the Windows "Resource
> Monitor".  When I try to start xedit (or whatever X based app) nothing
> happens, nothing appears.
> 
> As for FAQ, I'm afraid I don't see anything that might help.  I looked
> before I posted the original e-mail.
> 
> ---John
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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