xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display

kumarchi@comcast.net kumarchi@comcast.net
Tue Dec 21 13:58:00 GMT 2004


I do not zonealarm but windows sp2. the behavior is the same even when I turn the built in firewall off

I get the following error in XWin.log

_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0, directory /tmp/.X11-unix  will not be created

> hello:
> my xwin used to work. but now it does not work.
> 
> when I do
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
> 
> it simplly hangs. No xterm.
> 
> I removed old cygwin installation and replaced with complete new install. 
> still the same behavior.
> 
> iany clues?

/tmp/XWin.log may help. 

Maybe y

do u have ZoneAlarm installed?



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