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Latest 'upgrade' broke my XWin launch.


I just now upgraded to the latest version of cygwin. Now, when I run
startxwin.sh, I get the following errors:

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1. _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will
not be created.

The FAQ says this error is harmless and can be ignored, so I'm ignoring it.

2. Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
removing from list!
   Fatal server error:
   could not open default font 'fixed'

I'ved followed steps under 8.4 of
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof but
the problem (X not starting) does not go away.

3. A pop dialog saying
  "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open
/tmp/Xwin.log for more information.
        ...
  XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error "

I've tried (in vain) creating a root user from Windows followed by a
  $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
  $ chown -R root /tmp/.X11-unix
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Can somebody please help get X up and running? Downgrading cygwin
would be a big pain!

Frustrated cygwin user.

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