startxwin/XWin won't start properly

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

On 6/29/2010 10:50 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All was good, till a couple weeks ago when I added some packages to cygwin,
> and several packages where also upgraded.  Then xterm response time became
> very slow.  I tried a second upgrade yesterday, and now I cannot even start
> an xterm, nor will startxwin start properly.  This is a company computer
> which has Symantec anti-virus.  I tried disabling that as well.
>
> Here is the most obvious symptom:
>
> % echo $DISPLAY 127.0.0.1:0.0 % /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>
>
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . .. giving up.
> /usr/bin/startxwin:  Socket type not supported (errno 124):  unable to
> connect to X server /usr/bin/startxwin:  No such process (errno 3):  Server
> error.
>
> Notice the value of $DISPLAY above, which does not match whats in XWin.0.log
> (it has :0.0).  No idea how/why that happens.

Remove the DISPLAY setting.  Update your installation (your cygwin package is
out-of-date).  You also have a couple of orphaned installations of Cygwin.
Make sure those are all cleaned up/out.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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