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xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display
- From: kumarchi at comcast dot net
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:57:29 +0000
- Subject: xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I do not zonealarm but windows sp2. the behavior is the same even when I turn the built in firewall off
I get the following error in XWin.log
_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0, directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created
> hello:
> my xwin used to work. but now it does not work.
>
> when I do
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
>
> it simplly hangs. No xterm.
>
> I removed old cygwin installation and replaced with complete new install.
> still the same behavior.
>
> iany clues?
/tmp/XWin.log may help.
Maybe y
do u have ZoneAlarm installed?