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From: Bryan Berns <bryan.berns@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startxwin - xinit unable to connect to X server
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 07:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADi7v6+kDLK5_YpSBADL_+NmNB8LPMzu7x7oGB1RpxrovVBw_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a3f92951e894d9abcc0f184ad983ba1@ES12AMSNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Kunz, Christopher L <clkunz@sandia.gov> 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.
>
> Thanks.

When's the last time you had updated the xinit package?

Try launching as startxwin as startxwin -- -listen tcp

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14  0:04 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 [this message]
2015-05-15 16:37 ` Jon TURNEY
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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