XIO: fatal IO error 108 (Socket operation on non-socket) on X server ":0"

["Jay F Shachter" <jay at m5 dot chicago dot il dot us>]

I have little experience with Cygwin, since I normally do not use
Microsoft operating systems; but it is precisely for that reason that
I do install cygwin whenever I have to work on a Microsoft system --
for example, when I remove the viruses (Malwarebytes, as per a
friend's recommendation) from someone else's Windows XP laptop, which
I have been doing for the past couple of days, not because I know
anything about Windows, but because I know more than anyone else
around here.

Anyway, the viruses are all gone now, but it was a fair amount of
work, and in order to make the experience even remotely tolerable, I
installed Cygwin on this laptop, which is my reward, to myself, for
having done this fellow a favor.  But I am encountering a curious
error.  The "xinit" command creates a root window, but then after a
minute, or maybe less, the root window disappears and the command
exits with the error message, inter alia,

 XIO:  fatal IO error 108 (Socket operation on non-socket) on X server ":0"
       after 7 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
 winClipboardproc - XOpenDisplay() returned and successfully opened the display

 waiting for X server to shut down

There is more, but you get the idea.

Since I almost never use Cygwin, I have little notion of what may be
wrong (when I have used Cygwin in the past, I never saw this error
message), but if you can diagnose this problem from where you are
sitting, or if you can give me a workaround even without diagnosing
the problem, please do me the kindness of telling me what to do.  I do
not normally read this mailing list (an understatement, I never read
this mailing list), but you may contact me using any of the means
indicated below.  Thank you in advance for any and all replies to this
inquiry.


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