xterm Xt error: Can't open display

[claire wilson <hairster2002 at yahoo dot com>]

Hi there 

i have installed the latest version of cygwin after removing my older version as i wanted to run the latest version. all i want to do is emulate linux on my windows machine. i start cygwin from the start menu, and then: 
try to run xterm.exe from the resulting cygwin window but this always fail with xterm Xt error: Can't open display. i have tried setting my display to localhost:0, 1.27.0.0.1:0 and many other things none seem to work. 
try to run startxwin.bat i get the following error 
startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 
11363 [main] run 5336 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated 
8 [main] run 4388 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated 
(the contents of Xwin.log are listed below) 
however if i run startx, i do get an xterm but it lacks alot of funcitonality. i have tried going back to my original install, this no longer works either. 

i have spent all day trying to work out how to fix this (googling, mail list archive searches etc) and have failed so any help you could supply would be very much appreciated! 

Many thanks 

claire 

cat /tmp/XWin.log 
_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. 
(II) XF86Config is not supported 
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information 
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel 
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 1024 depth: 32 
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 
null screen fn ReparentWindow 
null screen fn RestackWindow 
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init 
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned 
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init 
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned 
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello 
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello 
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support 
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar 
ed memory support in the kernel 
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809) 
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" 
(--) 3 mouse buttons found 
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li 
st! 
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from 
list! 
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. 
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. 
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. 
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. 
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 
winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping: 5 
♀winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Could not open display, try: 1, sleeping: 5 
♀winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 2, sleeping: 5 
♀winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Could not open display, try: 2, sleeping: 5 
♀winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 3, sleeping: 5 
♀winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Could not open display, try: 3, sleeping: 5 
♀winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 4, sleeping: 5 
♀winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Could not open display, try: 4, sleeping: 5 
♀winInitMultiWindowWM - Could not open display, try: 5, sleeping: 5 
♀winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Could not open display, try: 5, sleeping: 5 
♀winInitMultiWindowWM - Failed opening the display. Exiting. 
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Failed opening the display. Exiting. 



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