RE: startx timing out

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

I don't have a .Xauthority file in my home dir.
I had a .xinitrc in my home dir, and renamed it on the odd chance that
it was causing the problem, it wasn't.
Thanks

 >From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
 >To: jwb@homer.att.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
 >Subject: Re: startx timing out
 >Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:44:12 -0400
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 >
 >A few suggestions:
 >
 >1) If you have a file in your home directory called .Xauthority, delete it 
 >(or at least rename it if you want to use it again later).
 >
 >2) If you don't have a file in your home directory called .xinitrc, create 
 >one containing something like the following (the following does the same 
 >stuff as the stock startxwin.sh and startxwin.bat):
 >
 >  xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
 >  xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black \
 >        -e /usr/bin/bash &
 >  twm
 >
 >>From: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
 >>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
 >>Subject: startx timing out
 >>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:17:26 -0400
 >>
 >>
 >>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:
 >>
 >> DELETED for Brevity...
 >>
 >>I couldn't find anything about this in the mail-list archive.
 >>
 >>Does someone see anything I don't.
 >>
 >>Thanks
 >>
 >>Jim Ballantine
 >>