BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed.

[Harold L Hunt II]

Unless you really know what you are doing, please use startxwin.bat to 
start Cygwin/XFree86:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-bat

Harold

modesty wrote:

> All members of Cygwin-XFree mailing list,
> 
> I tried the following commands but X server shutdown with error.
> 
> ~# cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ./.xinitrc
> ~# vi .xinitrc 
> (deleted all lines under the comment # start some nice programs and added 'openbox &')
> ~# startx
> waiting for X server to shut down BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed.
> 
> What does this error mean? I've searched on http://www.google.com which shows compilation error involved with BaseDisplay.o or something unrelated to my case. Any gleamy light shed upon this sort of uncertainty?