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RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- Subject: RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:20:55 -0500
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Noa. post a copy of startxwin.bat you are using, not screen out put.
It should be in /usr/X11R6/bin
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giridharan Iyengar [mailto:giyengar@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:08 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
>
>
>
>
> Do you mean this? I get the following when I run startxwin.bat:
>
> =========================================================
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>
> ./twm: unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>
> ./xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
>
> pwin->width = 00000400
>
> pwin->height = 00000300
>
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000800
>
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
>
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
>
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a016c88, 220d0000, 00000400,
> 00000300, 00000064,
> 00000064, 00001000 )
>
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa016e80 0xa016c88
>
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> Switch: 0xa016c88, 0xa01ee78
>
> ===================================================================
>
> -giri
>
>
> "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> on
> 03/07/2001 04:53:20 PM
>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>, "Giridharan Iyengar"
> <giyengar@us.ibm.com>
> cc:
> Subject: Re: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
>
>
> what does route print show?
>
> Rob
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar@us.ibm.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:16 AM
> Subject: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
>
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am able to start the x server successfully on
> > my win2k laptop but I am unable to get xterms
> > or twm connect to the display. I tried reducing the
> > resolution and bit depth and still no luck.
> >
> > I checked that I have TCP/IP connectivity and even
> > tried setting the DISPLAY to my ip address
> > instead of 127.0.0.1.
> >
> > I can ping any of these addresses but the xterm
> > comes back with a message that it is unable to
> connect
> > to display. Noticed that a couple of
> people reported
> > similar problem but could find no resolution for it
> in
> > the FAQs.
> >
> > Xterm comes back with Xt: Unable to connect to
> display
> > 127.0.0.1:0.
> > Same thing with twm.
> >
> > After mucking around for some time, I tried the
> following.
> > I connected to a remote machine and launched twm
> > and an xterm in the remote machine setting the
> DISPLAY as
> > my local win2k laptop's ip address:0. This
> seemed to
> work
> > just fine and I could connect to the Xfree
> server on
> my
> > laptop.
> >
> > I also ran Exceed on my local machine and used the
> xterm
> > that came with XFree to connect to the
> Exceed server.
> > Again,
> > the xterm comes back with a message that
> it is unable
> to
> > connect
> > to display as before.
> >
> > Any pointers?
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > -giri
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>