startx timing out

["J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer dot att dot com>]

I've installed cygwin-xfree and I seem to have something mis-configured.

If I run from startxwin.sh, everything runs fine, but if I try to use
startx, the x window, white, opens up, changes to a cross-hatch pattern
and eventually closes down.  In the sh window I get the message:
  waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
  ..
  ..
until it finally times out.  For the record the same thing happens if I
try and run just xinit

my /tmp/XWin.log is:

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
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 32 bits per pixel
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1017 h 745 r 1017 l 0 b 745 t 
0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 4068
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 winWindowProc - WM_*KEYDOWN 
- Closekey hit, quitting
eferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
winScreenInit - returning

I couldn't find anything about this in the mail-list archive.

Does someone see anything I don't.

Thanks

Jim Ballantine