RE: "unable to open display" in 7/2 build

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

You are using startxwin.sh?  right?
Comment out ssh-eval line with # sign.  Something is wrong with your ssh
installation or it is not installed at all.

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: James E. LaBarre [mailto:jamesl@bestweb.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:19 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
Subject: "unable to open display" in 7/2 build

I have the latest installer for Cygwin/Xfree, and have yet to get it to
actually *run* any x-apps.

(Windows 2000, 256MB memory, Thinkpad 600, NeoMagic MagicGraph128XD
video chipset, 2mb video memory, 1024x768x16 resolution)

Just in case there were some stray file/configuration conflicts, I
removed my entire CygWin installation, and re-installed from scratch,
then ran the installler for XFree from 7/2/01.  I can get the X-server
to come up, but none of the applications can find the x-server.  When I
run from the Cygwin bash prompt, for example, I get this:

=================================================================

$ startxwin.sh
      0 [main] ssh-agent 1480 sync_with_child: child 1596(0x2B4) died
before initialization wit
h status code 0x18B00
  24092 [main] ssh-agent 1480 sync_with_child: *** child state child
loading dlls
fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 4 i: 1
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
twm:  unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
xsetroot:  unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'

Administrator@MATERIAL ~
$ Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
mxterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits
per pixel
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1018 height 714
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 2036
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d
16
winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
mxterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0

=====================================================================

(I tried changing to my current IP number, but that didn't help either)

I *do* have Exceed v7.0 installed on this machine (slow as it may be),
and I'm not sure if that's affecting how this runs (it's not running
when I test this, in fact I've tried rebooting Win2K before trying
this).  I didn't find anything in the archives about this.  I looked for
stray DLLs, but it looks as though all the CygWin ones are in
c:\cygwin\bin where they belong.