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Problems starting XFree86


Hi

I have recently installed XFree86 4.2 on my PC which has WIN 98 and cygwin
version 2.194.2.21. I have read the mail archives and have tried all the
available options but nothing seems to work. I am giving the results when
startx is envoked under bash or startxwin under dos. Both startx and
startxwin.bat are as supplied by the installation(which was troublefree).

The output when running startxwin.bat from dos command prompt
>>startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me
X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

The output when running startx from bash prompt
>>startx
waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
..
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

$ XWin -query 127.0.0.1:0.0
opens up the Cygwin/XFree86 window but closes it after a few secs without
any error messages. Trying to run Xwin -query to a remote host (which is a
Solaris machine) has the same effect.

Trying xterm on it's own gives the can't open display error.
$ xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1


In both instances the Cygwin/XFree86 window opens but is completely
blank(white background), remains for few seconds and then closes. However
running XWin has the same response but no error message is printed.

I have a PPP and a Realtek RTL8029(AS) Ethernet adapter.
Below is the output of ipconfig /all

Windows 98 IP Configuration

 Host Name . . . . . . . . . : NKANSARA
 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 203.134.24.70
                                       203.134.26.70
 Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
 NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . :
 IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No
 WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No
 NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : No

0 Ethernet adapter :

 Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter.
 Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-00
 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
 IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 210.50.202.191
 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
 Default Gateway . . . . . . : 210.50.202.191
 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
 Primary WINS Server . . . . :
 Secondary WINS Server . . . :
 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 01 01 80 12:00:00
 Lease Expires . . . . . . . : 01 01 80 12:00:00

1 Ethernet adapter :
 Description . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8029(AS) Ethernet Adapt
 Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-4F-49-00-73-37
 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
 IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 169.254.14.92
 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
 Default Gateway . . . . . . :
 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
 Primary WINS Server . . . . :
 Secondary WINS Server . . . :
 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 03 30 02 10:50:46
 Lease Expires . . . . . . . :

Below is the output of netstat -a
$ netstat -a

Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    nkansara:1088          NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  TCP    nkansara:137           NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  TCP    nkansara:138           NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  TCP    nkansara:nbsession     NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  TCP    nkansara:137           NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  TCP    nkansara:138           NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  TCP    nkansara:nbsession     NKANSARA:0             LISTENING
  UDP    nkansara:1088          *:*
  UDP    nkansara:nbname        *:*
  UDP    nkansara:nbdatagram    *:*
  UDP    nkansara:nbname        *:*
  UDP    nkansara:nbdatagram    *:*

Though the ping works well  on 127.0.0.1
$ ping 127.0.0.1

Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  1ms, Average =  0ms

Some of the solutions tried by me are:
1)setting the ecvironment valiable OS and DISPLAY
2)trying various sets of ip address such as 0.0.0.0

It seems to me that either it cannot connect to 127.0.0.1 or the connection
can't be maintained. Any suggestions/pointers/references would be highly
appreciated.

Thanks

Naveen



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