X server fails to start on Vista

[Jon TURNEY]

Kim Goldov wrote:
> It worked with /usr/bin/XWin :1
> 
> The "X" icon appeared and the "xterm" application worked as expected.

This seems pretty strong evidence that the error message you reported is correct.

_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

The server can't start, either because it's not being allowed to bind to port 6000, or 
because something else already has.

> "netstat -p" showed nothing before or after XWin started. It also showed
> nothing with a live SSH connection started from my Cygwin bash shell.

Sorry, I meant to type "netstat -b" not "netstat -p"

> After starting XWin with "XWin :1" the process appeared as expected in the
> Windows task manager.
> 
> Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>
>> You're not running a different X server as well, are you?
>>
>> Check the output of "netstat -p" for lines of the form "TCP 
>> <yourcomputername>:6000" ?
>>
>> Does "/usr/bin/XWin :1 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error" fail in
>> the 
>> same way?


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