startx fails

[Lung.Allen]

I don't have any problems starting with startwin.bat and then send a remote display back to my cygwin system!

I do have a problem running startx, here is what I get, any help will be useful.

Warning: Cannot convert string "" to type XftFont
XIO:  fatal IO error 113 (Connection aborted) on X server ":0.0"
      after 286 requests (254 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

waiting for X server to shut down X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or
server shutdown).