Re: Fatal Error -Cannot establish listening sockets - when starting X server using startx
On 14/08/2009 08:38, rk ka wrote: I installed Cygwin/X with the latest setup.exe. When i run startx I get a fatal error. Please check the attached Xwin log for details. There is no other instance of X server running. I've also included the output of cygcheck -s -v -r in cygcheck.out. Try something like 'netstat -a -b -n | grep -A2 :6000' which should identify any process which is already bound to the socket which the X server wants to use. You should also read your cygcheck output, which includes: Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named file. So you should also consider the possibilities that this is either configured to cause the X server to fail this way, or it causing random failures [2] Please can someone tell me how I can fix this? I could not find analogous issues in the mailing list for this. I wonder why you did not find [1] [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-05/msg8.html [2] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
Re: Fatal Error -Cannot establish listening sockets - when starting X server using startx
Thanks Jon for the reply. I noticed [1] but did not go beyond reading the subject cuz it read Vista. Sorry. Cheers. 2009/8/14 Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk: On 14/08/2009 08:38, rk ka wrote: I installed Cygwin/X with the latest setup.exe. When i run startx I get a fatal error. Please check the attached Xwin log for details. There is no other instance of X server running. I've also included the output of cygcheck -s -v -r in cygcheck.out. Try something like 'netstat -a -b -n | grep -A2 :6000' which should identify any process which is already bound to the socket which the X server wants to use. You should also read your cygcheck output, which includes: Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named file. So you should also consider the possibilities that this is either configured to cause the X server to fail this way, or it causing random failures [2] Please can someone tell me how I can fix this? I could not find analogous issues in the mailing list for this. I wonder why you did not find [1] [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-05/msg8.html [2] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
