Re: startup problems

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Do you still have parts cygwin b-20 on your system at all? The FAQ quite clearly states that cygwin 1.1.4 or greater is required,
and other parts of cygwin are dependant on the cygwin1.dll version - perhaps you could send in a cygcheck -s -r -v?
You also don't mention what service pack you are on, or whether you have tried upgrading your video drivers (both are listed as
issues in the FAQ).

Please try those and get back to us. I've dropped a few more comments in the body below.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Barber" <graham_barber@placerdome.com>
To: <Cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:04 AM
Subject: startup problems


>
>
> I am running NT4 on a Dell Optiplex GXa and have cygwin...b20 installed and have
> been trying to get the
> XFree86  XServer running
>
> Initially  startxwin.bat complained about missing symbols in cygwin1.dll and
> missing vtwm command
> I changed vtwm to twm, then I traced through other messages from lilypond about
> cygwin1.dll and finally
> downloaded cygwin 1.1.8-2
> I adjusted the PATH to ensure the capture of the updated dll
>
> Here is the DOS window output
> D:\GNU\cygwin-b20\usr\X11R6\bin>startxwin.bat
>
> ... screen blanks and a new window opens and displays the following
> (if I mouse-click quickly while that new window is up an "acquire keyboard"
> error occurs which
> keeps the new window up so that I can copy-paste the output hereunder. That new
> window
> becomes much larger as though the raster settings are incorrect then goes back
> to normal size
>
>
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

You're not using ntsec. That's ok ignore this message.

> pwin->width = 00000320
> pwin->height = 00000258
> pwin->paddedWidth = 00000640
> pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
> calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
> calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a013b60, 1d0c0000, 00000320, 00000258, 00000064, 00000
> 064, 00000320 )
> Successful addition of Screen 0xa013d58 0xa013b60
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M

Did you download the fonts tarball - have you gone through the installation how-to?

> error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

You can ignore this.

> ... screen blanks and original window  displays the following
>
> D:\GNU\cygwin-b20\usr\X11R6\bin>XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by pe
> er) on X server "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

The Xserver has crashed. Are there any other messages /popup windows or the like (other than you described above)?

> After that the Windows Office toolbar which is usually on the screen right edge,
> moves
> in to the left in approx proportion to the contraction of the enlarged new
> window mentioned
> above
>
> Here is the adjusted startxwin.bat
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=D:\GNU\cygwin-b20\usr\bin;D:\GNU\cygwin-b20\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> start XWin -screen 0 800x600x16 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e bash
> start /B rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> start /B twm
>
>
>