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Re: Problem starting XWin Server
- From: D Jackson <drmc at microdash dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:25:09 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Problem starting XWin Server
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Jon TURNEY <jon.turney <at> dronecode.org.uk> writes:
>
> On 30/07/2011 07:10, Jan Chludzinski wrote:
> > From within a mintty shell, I get:
> >
> > $ startxwin
> >
> > giving up.
> > startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X
server
> > startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> That's odd. I can't really understand how that can happen. I'd suspect
that
> startxwin is failing to fork/exec Xwin successfully, possibly due to an
> application causing cygwin difficulties [1] (Unfortunately, 64-bit Windows
> itself seems to sometimes cause similar problems)
>
> Are you able to start the server directly by running 'XWin'?
>
> [1] http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda
>
I have same issue. I have reinstalled Cygwin 5 times. Each time I can start
XWin fine UNTIL I rebaseall or perlrebase or until I uninstall+reinstall
perl/Tk. The .log file is from the first couple times it sucessfully came up
(prior to the rebase and the errors) and nothing is written to any logfiles or
even STDERR/STDOUT except for the:
$ xinit
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
or
$ startxwin
giving up.
startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
I have added the env variable CYGWIN=tty but still nothing more informative is
written to any files or terminal.
My hardware is a HP EliteBook sitting on MS XP Pro version 2002 SP3. I have
altered the rebaseall script to actually complete, as it is failing on the
64bit dlls. ( added filter to sed to not include the specific dlls from list
creation ) I have tried this both ways in 'stock' form from repository and
altered to complete.
This is 100% reproducible. I can reproduce this every time even with fully
fresh installs of cygwin.
My goal is to get a version of Cyg X running that I can run cssh and have a
full menubar ( this is why the initial rebase and then the subsequent
reinstalls and the mucking about with the Perl/Tk stuff )
Thanks for any information in advance,
DJ
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