Re: not sure whats wrong

[Ken Dibble <kdibble at alltel dot net>]

Here are some places to start:

http://www.waimea.org/wiki/CygwinXTroubleShooting
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00098.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00053.html

Mark Blaskovich wrote:

> $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin/ && startx
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-1
>
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard 
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> 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.
>
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
>
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>
>
> And here is what it says in the log!
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-1
>
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard 
>
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
>
> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
>
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
>
> _______________________________________
>
> I have checked irc for help and no one really came up w/ a good fix
> for it.  Do you know what i should do or try ?  thanks
>
>