Re: Xwin failure

[kdibble at hatfield dot homelinux dot com (Ken Dibble)]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:48:12AM -0500, Kurt A. Rinehart wrote:
> I can't get XWin to open. The X icon shows in the system tray, but 
> xterm does not start and no other X-application can be started either. 
> I followed advice for a similar problem in an earlier post--I 
> uninstalled McAfee firewall, but the situation did not change. Here is 
> /tmp/XWin.log
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-4
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership
> winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
> 
> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
> 
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> 
> Kurt
> 

I don't know about your other problems.  Here is the faq entry for 
the error message listed.

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#duplicate-invocation

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