From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6242 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2011 16:43:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 6185 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2011 16:43:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_TX 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; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:43:09 +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; 08 Aug 2011 17:43:07 +0100 Message-ID: <4E401225.9090808@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:43:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110729 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: jan.chludzinski@gmail.com Subject: Re: Problem starting XWin Server References: <4E1D8DBA.2040409@dronecode.org.uk> <4E25A34D.8070003@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: 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: 2011-08/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 On 30/07/2011 07:10, Jan Chludzinski wrote: > From within a mintty shell, I get: > > $ 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. That's odd. I can't really understand how that can happen. I'd suspect that startxwin is failing to fork/exec Xwin successfully, possibly due to an application causing cygwin difficulties [1] (Unfortunately, 64-bit Windows itself seems to sometimes cause similar problems) Are you able to start the server directly by running 'XWin'? [1] http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda -- 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/