Re: cygwin error

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ray Percival wrote:

> I have installed cygwin on my pc running windows 2000. Over the weekend I was able to bring up multiple windows using it, however this morning I am unable to even bring up one window. In order to troubleshoot it I modified startxwin.bat to initiate XWin with the following command:
>      run XWin -multiwindow 
> now I get a fatal error message window directing me to look into the /tmp/XWin.log file for information. Here is what I found in C:\cygwin\tmp\XWin.log:
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.7.0.0-12
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow 
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
> 
> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.

You have most likely started the xserver twice. It is already running if 
you see the "X" symbol in the traybar. 

Check http://wiki.freedesktop.org/bin/view/Main/CygwinXTroubleShooting#Duplicate_invocation_error

bye
	ago
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