Re: Can't Open Display

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Here's a few things that can be done to test...


Your starting point is a desktop with no software running, no browser.
1) Start a Command prompt. (in win 9x, command.com, in NT and 2K
cmd.exe. in ME I have no idea :])
2) ipconfig /all > ipconfig.txt
3) netstat -n -a > nsnbefore.txt
4) startup the X server (no client software) from whatever method you
normally have been trying to use:]
5) in the command prompt netstat -n -a > nsnafter.txt
6) diff nsnbefore.txt nsnafter.txt
7) If the diff shows new listening TCP port(s) (it should), try
   8) telnet 127.0.0.1:[new listening TCP port] for each listening port.
9) document the results you got for 8, and send the three text files +
the results for 8 to the list.

Rob



----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "'Enoch Wu'" <ewu@eskimo.com>; <dambik@indiana.edu>;
<kdekorte@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: RE: Can't Open Display


> I'll admit that I'm no expert on why X would refuse connections from
clients
> running on the local machine.
>
> Therefore, I call on you guys to tell us what it is that is unique
about
> your software configurations that causes this problem.  I would be
willing
> to bet that if any of you grabbed a spare hard drive and installed
Windows,
> Cygwin, and Cygwin/XFree86 from scratch, without installing any other
> programs, your X clients would be able to connect to the X server.
>
> Prove me wrong.
>
> Tell us why Cygwin/XFree86 does not work on your machine.
>
> I think I speak for most of the list when I humbly say that I have no
idea
> what is causing your problems.
>
> Good luck, and I look forward to hearing what the problem is,
>
> Harold
>
>