Hi, Can you post the contents of /tmp/XWin.log from after the cygwin installer version has crashed?
Thanks, Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: Siddhartha Shivshankar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 01 July 2002 15:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: X-Free doesnt work, shady workaround > > > Hello all, hope you're doing good. > > XFree86 wouldnt load up on my Windows XP > machine. I installed practically all of cygwin > again because I didnt know what the problem was. > (no use of that though) > > It keeps giving me the error that there was no > X server to service requests. The X background > appears with X clock on twm. But just one mouse click > destroys the window. > > ------- Error that I get ------------- > waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 113 > (Connection aborted > ) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" > XIO: fatal IO error 113 (Connection aborted) on X server ":0.0" > after 58 requests (49 known processed) with 0 events > remaining. > > -------- End of error ----------------- > > Shady workaround - > > I left Xfree86 as it was. Then I downloaded pre-compiled > binaries from > http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.4/ > > into a separate folder. Running startx from this new > new folder somehow brings up X correctly. > But the startx in the Cygwin installation just does not > run. > > But it seems from some recent posts that I'm not the > only one having trouble running X. I'd be very grateful > for a solution. > > Thanks, > Siddhartha. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com >
