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Re: Cygwin Error


Ronald J. Duchovic wrote:

>         Upon issuing the command
> 
>                 startxwin.bat
> 
>         I receive an error message saying:
> 
>         "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
>         Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information."
> 
>         But Cygwin does not exit.

What do you mean, the terminal doesn't close? that's normal, the process that
will terminate (exit) is XWin which runs in the background.

>         The log states:
> 
>         "Fatal server error.
>         Cannot establish any listening sockets."
> 
>         Can you please help me understand this problem and make the
> appropriate correction?

Could be a permission problem, the user does not have the necessary permissions
to open the required ports (this happens in Unix, I've never seen it in Cygwin).
 Is your user a member of the PowerUsers or Administrators group?

What version of Windows are you using?
-- 
René Berber


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