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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "Kunz, Christopher L" <clkunz@sandia.gov>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startxwin - xinit unable to connect to X server
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 16:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55561D71.4020308@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a3f92951e894d9abcc0f184ad983ba1@ES12AMSNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>

On 13/05/2015 19:40, Kunz, Christopher L wrote:
> After updating to the latest Cygwin distribution, I can no longer connect to X server. When I run startxwin (on a fresh Cygwin install), I get the following errors:
>
> xinit: giving up
> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
> xinit: server error
>
> The XWin.#.log looks okay, I think (see attached).  I've set DISPLAY to :0.0.

It seems that the X server is crashing while it's still starting up.

I'm afraid I can't reproduce this problem.

If possible, could you follow the "Generating a backtrace when the X 
server is crashing at startup" instructions at [1], which might shed 
some light on what is going wrong...

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html

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Jon TURNEY
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-15 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 19:06 Kunz, Christopher L
2015-05-14  7:06 ` Bryan Berns
2015-05-15 16:37 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2015-05-15 18:01   ` [EXTERNAL] " Kunz, Christopher L
2015-05-15 19:08     ` Jon TURNEY
2015-05-18 16:43       ` Kunz, Christopher L
2015-05-15 19:26 bgoldberg

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