I don't have a .Xauthority file in my home dir. I had a .xinitrc in my home dir, and renamed it on the odd chance that it was causing the problem, it wasn't. Thanks
>From: "Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: startx timing out >Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:44:12 -0400 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >A few suggestions: > >1) If you have a file in your home directory called .Xauthority, delete it >(or at least rename it if you want to use it again later). > >2) If you don't have a file in your home directory called .xinitrc, create >one containing something like the following (the following does the same >stuff as the stock startxwin.sh and startxwin.bat): > > xsetroot -solid aquamarine4 > xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black \ > -e /usr/bin/bash & > twm > >>From: "J. W. Ballantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: startx timing out >>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:17:26 -0400 >> >> >>I've installed cygwin-xfree and I seem to have something mis-configured. >> >>If I run from startxwin.sh, everything runs fine, but if I try to use >>startx, the x window, white, opens up, changes to a cross-hatch pattern >>and eventually closes down. In the sh window I get the message: >> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections >> .. >> .. >>until it finally times out. For the record the same thing happens if I >>try and run just xinit >> >>my /tmp/XWin.log is: >> >> DELETED for Brevity... >> >>I couldn't find anything about this in the mail-list archive. >> >>Does someone see anything I don't. >> >>Thanks >> >>Jim Ballantine >>