Serious X problem, cannot start xterm.

[Robert Body]

Gerrit, did you try running the "startxwin.bat" file too from Windows?

That's what I do, i run an icon from Windows XP desktop, and it runs XWin 
and then Ice so the first teminal window I see is rxvt (or xterm), not  the 
Windows managed "cmd.exe" window

-Robert


>From: René Berber <r.berber@computer.org>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Serious X problem, cannot start xterm.
>Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:17:02 -0600
>
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>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
> > I have no idea what is happening, IIRC I updated recently the package
> > X-startup-scripts, however I use startxwin.sh and there no changes at
> > all (why was the package updated?), all other X11 related package are
> > current as before.
> >
> > Now when running the script I get this output when xterm should start:
> >
> > $ startxwin.sh
> >
> > gerrit@INSPIRON /perl
> > $ _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp
> > _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/127.0.0.1:0
> > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
> > Welcome to the XWin X Server
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > This is on my notebook with XP installed.  Also later after XWin strtup
> > is finished (including the window manager twm) I cannot start xterm,
> > getting the same error.
> >
> > Probably the same reason causes the issue I have with ssh here:
> >
> > $ ssh sourceware.org
> > ssh: sourceware.org: no address associated with name
> > lost connection
>
>Seems unrelated to the startup scripts.
>
>The problem should be with whatever cygminires.dll depends on to resolve 
>names
>or with changed firewall settings (can't query DNS server because port 53 
>is not
>open), it could also be in /etc/hosts for the case where localhost is not
>defined as 127.0.0.1.
>
>HTH
>- --
>René Berber
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