Re: XWin.exe doesn't start

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

Lionel,

It sounds like you'v got the bug where XWin.exe would launch but would fail to
show it's Window sometimes.

Have you updated the XFree86-xserv package via Cygwin's setup.exe within the
last week?  Upgrade to 4.2.0-5 and if that doesn't work, try the 4.2.0-6
version that is marked as test (so you'll have to manually select it by
clicking the version in setup.exe for XFree86-xserv.)

Reply to the mailing list with your results,

Harold

Lionel Ains <lains@caramail.com> said:

> Hi,
> 
> As you mentionned in your reply, set -x doesn't show whether
> children processes are started as background tasks or not. 
> In the script I run, XWin.exe and twm are both started as
> background tasks. I actually get the same result when I do
> it on the command-line.
> 
> What is really strange is that this does not happen all the
> times. Around 10% of the times I tried to start XWin, I
> could get it to work. When I manage to have it working once,
> it will always work the next times (until I reboot). 
> Moreover, once it fails, if I try later on, I can sometimes
> get it to start.
> I've tried using Exceed on another machine and this works
> fine, but cannot Exceed it on my PC, so I need XWin.
> 
> It started successfully this morning, so I can use XWin for
> the rest of the day...
> 
> When XWin.exe doesn't start properly, it just stays on the
> list of tasks (although it doesn't seem to use any CPU
> time), and I can't kill it using CygWin's kill -9, I have to
> End task using WinNT task mamanger.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lionel
> 
> > -------Message d'origine-------
> > De : Romulus <romulusnr@yahoo.com>
> > Date : 15/06/102 01:14:46
> > > You need to put things in the background with &'s. Mainly
> xwin.exe and
> > twm. Otherwise when the script starts XWin it will wait
> for Xwin to
> > finish before continuing on. Which is just as you
> described it.
> > > (At least I think that's what's happening... I don't
> recall if set -x
> > displays things like &'s. Seeing the actual script, and
> not its output
> > when -x is set in the shell, would make me more certain.)
> > > Open a cygwin shell window and try just 'xwin.exe &' ,
> then 'twm &' ,
> > then see if twm menus activate in the xwin window.
> > > Kdt
> > > --- Lionel Ains wrote:
> > > I'm getting difficulties to start an X server on CygWin
> > > under WinNT.
> > > I've installed XFree86 using the standard setup.exe
> installer.
> > > > > Here is what I'm getting when I launch startxwin.sh
> > > > > ~$ startxwin.sh
> > > + export DISPLAY=LAINS-1:0.0
> > > +
> > > + rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix
> > > + XWin
> > > + twm
> > > + xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
> > > > > The process XWin seems to hang and, of course, when
> I kill
> > > it, startx returns.
> > > > > + xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow
> -bg black
> > > -e /usr/bin/bash
> > > + exit
> > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X
> > > server "LAINS-1:0.0"
> > > > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events
> > > remaining.
> > > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X
> > > server "LAINS-1:0.0"
> > > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events
> > > remaining.
> > > > > Is there anything wrong with my config? Any log file I
> > > should check?
> > > After several failures, I could manage to start XWin only
> > > once (running XWin.exe directly also), but I can't get it to
> > > work again, now that I have rebooted Windows.
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