Re: Problem starting XWin Server

[Jan Chludzinski <jan.chludzinski@gmail.com>]

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.

---Jan

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jon TURNEY
<jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> 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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