RE: Another Help Plea

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> This is the text of my first message:
> 
> I have carefully followed (twice) the downloading/installation of the
> Cygwin/Xfree86 programs.
> After a successful install, and then running startxwin.bat, I get a
> momentary Xwin, and an error message
> to say the the file mxterm can't be found.
> Before installing X, I did a full install of the Cygwin system and
> tools.
> Below is the error message appearing in the final window after an
> attempted
> start.
> Can you possible shed some light on this for me please.
> 
> --Quote--
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> The system cannot find the file mxterm.
> --End Quote--
> 

There is a readme file in startup-scripts, it says "You must edit batch
files according to your installation"  Did you read it?  Mxterm is an option
client and is not part of xfree86.  You can get it from contrib directory if
you want.

Also post your OS. And output from xwin.exe DOS window.


Suhaib

> I wonder if anyone has any experience of this.
> 
> Thanks for any reply
> 
> Steve P