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Re: X server fails to start on Vista
- From: "Markus Friedel" <markusf at altia dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:39:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: X server fails to start on Vista
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
I receive following error when starting XWin-Server (startxwin) on my Vista
Ultimate x64-System.
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already
running
I also used following advices, but it did not work out
Kim Goldov wrote:
It worked with /usr/bin/XWin :1
The "X" icon appeared and the "xterm" application worked as expected.
This seems pretty strong evidence that the error message you reported is
correct.
_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
The server can't start, either because it's not being allowed to bind to
port 6000, or because something else already has.
"netstat -p" showed nothing before or after XWin started. It also showed
nothing with a live SSH connection started from my Cygwin bash shell.
Sorry, I meant to type "netstat -b" not "netstat -p"
After starting XWin with "XWin :1" the process appeared as expected in the
Windows task manager.
Jon TURNEY wrote:
You're not running a different X server as well, are you?
Check the output of "netstat -p" for lines of the form "TCP
<yourcomputername>:6000" ?
Does "/usr/bin/XWin :1 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error" fail in
the same way?
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