Cannot start X server

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Could you post your OS please?

To all users, please always include which OS (including Service Packs)
you are using.

start /B is an option on my Windwos NT 4 and Win2K.

vtwm is in "contrib" directory.

true xdm only root can work at the moment.  I plan on fixing gid and uid
issues
with xdm.

In case you are using Win9x/Me then it won't work on it.  In that case you
need to try Harold "test case" from "test" directory.  Please dig mail
archive
on how he and users got it working.  Other alternative is to use
X-server-1.0 from
contrib directory and install it in c:\usr not c:\cygwin\usr.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon S. Berndt [ mailto:jsb@hal-pc.org ]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:56 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Cannot start X server
> 
> 
> I have been using Cygwin for some time and today I needed to 
> try out the XFree86
> server. I downloaded everything and got to the point where I 
> could run the
> startxwin.bat script (which is broken in the first place) but 
> all I ever got was
> a blank X background screen and X cursor.
> 
> startxwin.bat seems to be broken because
> 
> 1) /B is not an option for "start"
> 2) There doesn't seem to be a "vtwm"
> 
> I tried running xdm, but got a message saying only root wants 
> to run it.
> 
> I tried alt-tabbing back to the bash shell after I had double-clicked
> startxwin.bat but found I could not alt-tab to anywhere.
> 
> I tried running xinit supplied with xterm and then again with 
> twm but got
> nowhere.
> 
> I tried setting up a .xinitrc that would have started xterm 
> and twm but that
> wouldn't work.
> 
> I tried setting up my own startup script based on 
> startxwin.bat but for bash
> instead. I thought this had the best chance for success but I 
> was wrong. The
> cross-hatched X display background always displayed nicely, 
> but everything else
> hung. I found I was able to kill it by alt tabbing and then hitting
> control-alt-delete. When I saw the shell again it seemed that 
> whatever I did the
> xterm and/or twm tried to start before the X display server 
> was completely
> started up. I kept seeing a "Connection refused (error 111)". 
> It is funny
> because the installation guide says "download the stuff and 
> run, it works!" in
> so many words. I can't get any applications to start. I've 
> checked the list mail
> archives, but that wasn't very helpful. Any light anyone 
> could shed on this
> problem will be much appreciated.
> 
> Jon Berndt
>