Hi, I try a fresh start, not being clear about my complete failure to get any reply.
I use XWin and GNU emacs (X11 version). My startup script is: /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard This used to work for a few years, but recently started to loop and fail (plus 2 glitches). First the loop effect: after starting the server process (transcript not displayed in the first occurrence), which ends in: winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. ...the transcript gets into: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . .. .. This eventually times out, unless sometimes gets a reply. However, recently, I have started to try different displays in parallel, e.g.: bash --login -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :2 -multiwindow -clipboard" I have started to use higher and higher numbers. The effect is that one of then (today: 5) will unblock all the others, so that I got today 5 instances of GNU emacs, all reported a DISPLAY of ":5". The two glitches: Before starting the server, I get: /usr/bin/startx: line 47: 2188 Segmentation fault (core dumped) expr "$1" : ':[0-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null 2>&1 At connecting, the first line is: xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 I notice that I have an old startx~, which helps me to see what has changed in recent versions of startx: bin> diff startx~ startx 34a35,43 > # Automatically determine an unused $DISPLAY > d=0 > while true ; do > [ -e /tmp/.X$d-lock ] || break > d=$(($d + 1)) > done > defaultdisplay=":$d" > unset d > 79c88 < # if no client arguments either, use rc file instead --- > # For compatibility reasons, only use startxrc if there were no client > command line arguments 92,93d100 < < clientargs=$defaultclientargs 96a104,108 > # if no client arguments, use defaults > if [ x"$clientargs" = x ]; then > clientargs=$defaultclientargs > fi > 101c113 < # if no server arguments or display either, use defaults --- > # For compatibility reasons, only use xserverrc if there were no > server command line arguments 103d114 < # For compatibility reasons, only use xserverrc if there were no server command line arguments 109,111d119 < < serverargs=$defaultserverargs < display=$defaultdisplay 114a123,132 > # if no server arguments, use defaults > if [ x"$serverargs" = x ]; then > serverargs=$defaultserverargs > fi > > # if no display, use default > if [ x"$display" = x ]; then > display=$defaultdisplay > fi > 155a174 > touch "$xserverauthfile" bin> ll startx startx~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 emagiro root 4917 Jan 30 03:12 startx -rwxr-xr-x 1 emagiro root 4540 Aug 22 2011 startx~ bin> ll /tmp/.X* -r--r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 11 Apr 23 09:38 /tmp/.X0-lock -r--r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 11 Apr 23 09:40 /tmp/.X1-lock -r--r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 11 Apr 23 09:42 /tmp/.X2-lock -r--r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 11 Apr 23 09:43 /tmp/.X3-lock -r--r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 11 Apr 23 09:44 /tmp/.X4-lock -r--r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 11 Apr 23 09:45 /tmp/.X5-lock /tmp/.X11-unix: total 38 drwxrwxrwt+ 1 root root 0 Apr 23 09:45 . drwxrwxrwt+ 1 emagiro root 0 Apr 23 09:45 .. srwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 0 Apr 23 09:38 X0 srwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 0 Apr 23 09:40 X1 srwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 0 Apr 23 09:42 X2 srwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 0 Apr 23 09:43 X3 srwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 0 Apr 23 09:44 X4 srwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 0 Apr 23 09:45 X5 I don't attempt here to interpret these facts myself. I am of course mostly annoyed by the failure to connect to the XWin server using the first port. Can anybody shed light on a possible explanation? I used Gmane and uploaded my cygcheck.out. Thanks, Marc http://old.nabble.com/file/p33732045/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/startx-with-different-displays-tp33702991p33732045.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
