Re: Unable to start Xterm

["Senthil Ramamurthy" <sramamurthy at hsc dot wvu dot edu>]

Hi,

My cygwin.bat reads 

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh 

I'm a newbie and I have very little idea on what is going on. My X
window output is 

Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that
the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
rm: cannot unlink `/tmp/.X11-unix/X0': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/.X11-unix': Permission denied
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.7.0.0-9

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard


Fatal server error:
Cannot open log file "/tmp/XWin.log"

xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0

and my /tmp/XWin.log contains 

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 4.3.0.57
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1024 dwHeight: 768
winSetEngine - Multi Window => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per
pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1024 h: 768
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1024 h: 768
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 740 1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 740 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1024 h 740 r 1024 l 0 b
740 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 740
depth: 32
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1024 height: 740 depth: 32
size image: 3031040
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1024
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24
bpp 32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM.
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winInitWM - Returning.
winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
winScreenInit - returning
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
InitOutput - Returning.
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack
of shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) 
(EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown
Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)"
Options = "(null)"
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from list!
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 512 370
winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned
winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
winClipboardProc - Hello
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the
display.
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully
opened the display.
winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened
the display.
winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winMultiWindowGetWMHints - pWin or hints was NULL
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

Please help 

Thank You 

Senthil


>>> alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de 05/26/04 7:09 AM >>>
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Senthil Ramamurthy wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been Displaying remote X clients with cygwin/X using the telnet
> method. The server I'm trying to connect to does not have ssh for some
> wierd reason. Anyways the problem is that I'm not able to get my xterm
> running. I have included a copy of the error log.  I tried searching
the
> mailing list, but didnt hit up on solution. Please help. 

How do you start xterm? What does xterm output?

bye
	ago
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