Fatal Error -Cannot establish listening sockets - when starting X server using startx

[rk ka]

Thanks Jon for the reply.

I noticed [1] but did not go beyond reading the subject cuz it read
"Vista". Sorry.

Cheers.

2009/8/14 Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>:
> On 14/08/2009 08:38, rk ka wrote:
>>
>> I installed Cygwin/X with the latest setup.exe.
>>
>> When i run startx I get a fatal error. Please check the attached Xwin
>> log for details. There is no other instance of X server running. I've
>> also included the output of cygcheck -s -v -r in cygcheck.out.
>
> Try something like 'netstat -a -b -n  | grep -A2 ":6000"' which should
> identify any process which is already bound to the socket which the X server
> wants to use.
>
> You should also read your cygcheck output, which includes:
>
> "Potential app conflicts:
>
> ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall
> Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named file."
>
> So you should also consider the possibilities that this is either configured
> to cause the X server to fail this way, or it causing random failures [2]
>
>> Please can someone tell me how I can fix this? I could not find
>> analogous issues in the mailing list for this.
>
> I wonder why you did not find [1]
>
> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-05/msg00008.html
> [2] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
>

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