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startx fails with cygwin 1.3.13-2, 1.3.12-4 works
- From: David Meleedy <david dot meleedy at analog dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:06:01 -0400
- Subject: startx fails with cygwin 1.3.13-2, 1.3.12-4 works
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I can't use "startx" anymore with the new cygwin package on my
Windows 2000 machine. The problem goes away when I revert to
the previous version. I totally uninstalled and reinstalled cygwin
(deleting the entire folder) to make sure there was nothing non-standard
about my setup.
What happens is that when I run "startx", which invokes xinit,
I get the gray window with the X cursor that moves around, but nothing
else, and then in the cygwin window, the following messages appear:
: startx
waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
..
..
( a lot of double dot lines appear )
..
( eventually I click the close box on the Cygwin/XFree86 application)
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to Xserver
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
To me it looks like there might be something going on with the
socket connection to the Xserver? Just a guess, all I know is
that the old version works.
Thanks for looking into this.
-Dave
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Phone: 617 461 3494 Norwood, MA 02062-9106 USA