From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22922 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2004 00:24:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22914 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2004 00:24:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cnnxn.com) (204.144.134.227) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2004 00:24:59 -0000 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: fatal IO error 104 on start Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <741C3B0BAF7B1F4F8FCC50AC4766CBF0248AEF@phoenix.ossconnexn.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Greg Jewell" To: X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 List-Id: Thanks for the tip. Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the p= ertinent error message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress Any ideas? I installed the default XFree86 packages. Greg >-----Original Message----- >From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu] >Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 13:58 >To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start > > >Greg, > >Look at /tmp/XWin.log. > >Harold > >Greg Jewell wrote: > >> Hi All, >>=20 >> I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to=20 >start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive=20 >the following error: >>=20 >> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X=20 >server ":0.0" >> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. >>=20 >> I searched the archives and saw that others were having the=20 >same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but=20 >no solution was offered. >>=20 >> I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources=20 >this morning, but none of them produced different results.=20=20 >Other than the few times that I've installed the software this=20 >morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously.=20=20 >(It's a new box.) >>=20 >> Does anybody know how to resolve this? >>=20 >>=20 >> Thanks, >> Greg Jewell >>=20 >>=20 >