From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22193 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2011 06:10:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 22185 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jul 2011 06:10:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_TX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f45.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f45.google.com) (74.125.82.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:10:39 +0000 Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3510921wwj.2 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:10:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.202.19 with SMTP id fc19mr2975230wbb.61.1312006236884; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.29.144 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:10:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E25A34D.8070003@dronecode.org.uk> References: <4E1D8DBA.2040409@dronecode.org.uk> <4E25A34D.8070003@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem starting XWin Server From: Jan Chludzinski To: cygwin-xfree Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/msg00075.txt.bz2 =46rom within a mintty shell, I get: $ startxwin giving up. startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X se= rver startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error. ---Jan On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 14/07/2011 10:29, Jan Chludzinski wrote: >> First, THANKS! >> >> =A0 =A0 $ startxwin >> =A0 =A0 giving up. >> =A0 =A0 startxwin: =A0No such file or directory (errno 2): =A0unable to >> connect to X server >> =A0 =A0 startxwin: =A0No such process (errno 3): =A0Server 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=3Dtty. > > Can I suggest you install mintty, and try running startxwin from that, wh= ich > 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". =A0When 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. =A0I looked >> before I posted the original e-mail. >> >> ---John >> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Jon TURNEY 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. =A0If I try either "startxwin" or "startx" or "xinit" >>>> from the BASH shell I get: >>>> >>>> giving up. >>>> startxwin: =A0No such file or directory (errno 2): =A0unable to connec= t to X server >>>> startxwin: =A0No such process (errno 3): =A0Server error. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> Looking at the XWin.0.log you attached, it looks like the X server is s= tarting >>> up successfully. >>> >>> If clients are unable to connect, this might be due to firewall configu= ration >>> 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 > -- 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/