fatal IO error 104 on start

[Greg Jewell]

Thanks for the tip.  Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the pertinent error message:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

Any ideas?  I installed the default XFree86 packages.


Greg



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 13:58
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start
>
>
>Greg,
>
>Look at /tmp/XWin.log.
>
>Harold
>
>Greg Jewell wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to 
>start the X server.  Each time I try (using startx), I receive 
>the following error:
>> 
>> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X 
>server ":0.0"
>>         after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>> 
>> I searched the archives and saw that others were having the 
>same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but 
>no solution was offered.
>> 
>> I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources 
>this morning, but none of them produced different results.  
>Other than the few times that I've installed the software this 
>morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously.  
>(It's a new box.)
>> 
>> Does anybody know how to resolve this?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Greg Jewell
>> 
>> 
>