RE: cannot use Xfree86

["Rice, Thomas D" <thomas dot d dot rice2 at boeing dot com>]

Does your bash prompt say 'i have no name', if so your ID in /etc/passwd is too large, it has to be less than 65536 (16 bit).  Your ID is the third field (separated by ':') on the line with your login.  I was getting the same useless window that you are describing and this was what my problem is.  If this is what's wrong, just change the ID to something < 65536.

Tom Rice
Boeing RTS-Comanche

-----Original Message-----
From: Macdonald, Luke H [mailto:LHMACDONALD@PARTNERS.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 2:45 PM
To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
Subject: cannot use Xfree86


> Hi,
> I installed Xfree86 4.2.1 onto my windows 2k box at work which has Cygwin up
> and running normally.  Every time I try to start X, it crashes.  These are the
> commands I tried, followed by the respective error message or a description of
> what happens.  
> $ X , and $xwin
> -in these cases, a window called Cygwin/Xfree86 -0:0 opens, which looks like a
> linux environment. However, the mouse buttons do nothing and no terminals
> open, i.e. this window is useless.  
> $xinit
>  - the same window opens, and immediately closes.  The bash terminal reads:
> waiting for X server to shut down
> $startx 	
> - the same window opens, but this time there are drop down menus on mouse
> clicks, and a clock.  However, the window quickly closes and the following
> message appears in the cygwin bash terminal:  
> 
> 		cat: //.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 		X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> 		waiting for X server to shut down XIO:  fatal IO error 113
> (Connection
> 		on X server ":0.0"
> 		      after 58 requests (49 known processed) with 0 events
> remaining.
> 
> I've tried to generate the .Xauthority file with $xauth generate 0:0 . 
> xauth:  creating new authority file /.Xauthority
> xauth: (argv):1:  unable to open display "0:0".
> 
> What is going on here?  I appreciate any help.  
> 
> Luke
> 
>