RE: X server won't start in win95a

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Raymond,

Have you done a file search for cygwin1.dll on your system?  How many copies
did you come up with?

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Kwong [mailto:kwong@control.toronto.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:33 AM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: X server won't start in win95a
>
>
> Harold:
>
> I followed your steps. There is absolutely no output: the cursor just sits
> there blinking. Again I have to shut it down manually.
>
> In case you missed it earlier, the DXWin32 and the Xvnc servers
> both start,
> although they are excruciatingly slow. I hope this "lack of
> information" is
> useful to you!
>
> Raymond
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:06:29AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > Raymond,
> >
> > Do this:
> > 1) Open an MS-DOS Prompt
> > 2) cd %CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin, where %CYGWIN_ROOT% is your Cygwin
> > installation root, e.g. c:\cygwin
> > 3) Run 'XWin', not startxwin.bat, with no parameters
> > 4) Send in the messages that appear in the MS-DOS Prompt window
> >
> > If you see absolutely no output, following the above steps, let us know.
> > Otherwise, send in the output.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Raymond Kwong [mailto:kwong@control.toronto.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:03 AM
> > > To: Harold Hunt
> > > Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Re: X server won't start in win95a
> > >
> > >
> > > Harold:
> > >
> > > There is nothing. A window with the XWin title comes out with a
> > > blank black
> > > screen and just sits there. When I close it manually, the message says
> > > "Windows cannot shut down the program automatically, blah blah
> > > blah...". As I
> > > said, it seems that the X server starts partially, but would
> not accept
> > > connections. If I run startx from the bash prompt, I get the message
> > > "Waiting for the X server to begin accepting connections"
> followed by many
> > > periods. Is there a way to get XWin to reveal its secrets?
> > >
> > > Raymond
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:42:06PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > > > Raymond,
> > > >
> > > > I need to see the output that XWin.exe generates upon an
> > > attempted startup.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Harold