Cygwin X Server

[Josh Gramoll <jgramoll at gmail dot com>]

I downloaded Cygwin the other day, and haven't been able to get it 
running. The first time I installed it, whenever I would run Cygwin.bat, 
the command shell would open up. However, it would immediately close. So 
I reinstalled Cygwin, and was able to get the bash shell to work. Then I 
tried to open the X-Server, however if I type startx into the Cygwin 
bash shell, it pauses for a moment. X-Server process starts taking up 
the remaining % of my CPU, and the bash shell says:
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$ startx

waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
..
..
..
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and the dots continue on forever until I have to kill the program.

If I try running cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat it comes up with an 
error box, and gives me this text in the cygwin\temp\XWin.txt:

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_XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be 
created.
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 1024 
depth: 32
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 
bpp 32
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack 
of shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
(--) 3 mouse buttons found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing 
from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
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I have tried reinstalling X11 fonts, and even X11 multiple times, from 
multiple mirrors, even all of cygwin. But it never seems to work. I 
would greatly appreciate any feedback that may help me fix this problem, 
I was looking forward to getting to use cygwin, and it frustrates me 
that I have spent a couple hours on this and it doesn't work. Thanks for 
you time.

--Josh Gramoll

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