From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8681 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2011 15:33:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 8657 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2011 15:33:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:33:20 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.8]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 28 Jul 2011 16:33:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4E318140.7030602@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:47:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110714 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree CC: hiking_feil@yahoo.com Subject: Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed References: <1311686439.44436.YahooMailNeo@web161429.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1311686439.44436.YahooMailNeo@web161429.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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: 2011-07/txt/msg00069.txt.bz2 On 26/07/2011 14:20, Howard Feil wrote: > I have installed cygwin on several windows XP 32bit machines. To do the install I used the defaults and then installed all of X11 and > Networks. After a little while about 20 minutes? > when opening a new windows, I get the > error: > > > The application 'gedit' lost its connection to the display localhost:11.0; > most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed > the application. > > It doesn't matter what I do next, nothing simple makes the x-server come back alive. > > This > is happening on multiple machines. For some reasons I have other > machines that never have a problem. These machines may have older > installations. > > > Any advice is appreciated. Use ssh -Y [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00394.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/