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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/