cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

[Holger, Vodafone]

Hello,

If you ever find it out, I have the same situation (win10, X startup fail with connection refused) Also Windows 10, but I do not know, when it starts, I am not using X very often. I tried to re-install the complete x-packages of Cygwin, also started from scratch with my dot-files in the home dir, and my home dir is not my windows home but /home/<username>.

If I can help in finding out it, please let me know, what I can do

Regards, Holger

> Am 13.06.2020 um 13:31 schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> 
> On 13.06.2020 11:55, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
>>>>>>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>:
>>>> can you start X11 with startxwin ?
>>>> If you start with just "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard"
>>>> does it work ?
>>> startxwin isn't found:
>>>  sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin
>>>  -bash: startxwin: command not found
>>>  sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ which startxwin
>>>  which: no startxwin in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/cmd:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Calibre2:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/GnuWin32/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_241/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/PuTTY:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Local/
>>>  Microsoft/WindowsApps:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Local/Programs/Fiddler:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Roaming/npm:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin:/cygdrive/c/Application
>>>  s/Atlassian/atlassian-plugin-sdk-8.0.16/bin:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/apps/bin:/usr/local/go)
>>>  sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$
>>> I thought it might be because xorg-scripts wasn't installed, so I
>>> installed xorg-scripts 1.0.1-1, but it didb't make startxwin appear.
>>> I *do* have xorg-server 1.20.5-3 installed (and it was working until a
>>> couple of days ago).
>>> startxwin is supposed to be installed with xorg-server?
>> I was missing the xinit package and installed xinit 1.4.1-1 and then I
>> got startxwin.
>> It failed in the startup with messages that looks similar to the ones
>> output to the log file:
>> sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin
>> xauth:  file /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.Xauthority does not exist
>> xauth:  file /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.Xauthority does not exist
>> Welcome to the XWin X Server
>> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>> Release: 1.20.5.0
>> OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-18363 ITEM-S63383 3.1.5-340.x86_64 2020-06-01 08:59 UTC x86_64
>> OS: Windows 10  [Windows NT 10.0 build 18363] (Win64)
>> Package: version 1.20.5-3 built 2019-09-06
>> XWin was started with the following command line:
>> /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth
>>  /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.serverauth.1056
>> (II) xorg.conf is not supported
>> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
>> LoadPreferences: /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.XWinrc not found
>> LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
>> LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
>> winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: no
>> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL
>> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000005
>> xinit: giving up
>> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
> 
> 
> this looks like another program blocking the effort
> and it can be as Xwin can NOT write files with the needed
> permission on your home directory
> 
> 
> What is the output of
>  grep home  /etc/nsswitch.conf
> 
> Regards
> Marco
> 
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