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Re: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- To: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- From: "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:07:42 -0500
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Do you mean this? I get the following when I run startxwin.bat:
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_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
./twm: unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
./xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
pwin->width = 00000400
pwin->height = 00000300
pwin->paddedWidth = 00000800
pwin->bitsPerPixel = 00000010
calling winAllocateFramebufferMemory
calling cfb16ScreenInit( 0a016c88, 220d0000, 00000400, 00000300, 00000064,
00000064, 00001000 )
Successful addition of Screen 0xa016e80 0xa016c88
error opening security policy file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Switch: 0xa016c88, 0xa01ee78
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-giri
"Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> on 03/07/2001 04:53:20 PM
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>, "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar@us.ibm.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
what does route print show?
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar@us.ibm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:16 AM
Subject: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
>
> Hi,
>
> I am able to start the x server successfully on
> my win2k laptop but I am unable to get xterms
> or twm connect to the display. I tried reducing the
> resolution and bit depth and still no luck.
>
> I checked that I have TCP/IP connectivity and even
> tried setting the DISPLAY to my ip address
> instead of 127.0.0.1.
>
> I can ping any of these addresses but the xterm
> comes back with a message that it is unable to
connect
> to display. Noticed that a couple of people reported
> similar problem but could find no resolution for it
in
> the FAQs.
>
> Xterm comes back with Xt: Unable to connect to
display
> 127.0.0.1:0.
> Same thing with twm.
>
> After mucking around for some time, I tried the
following.
> I connected to a remote machine and launched twm
> and an xterm in the remote machine setting the
DISPLAY as
> my local win2k laptop's ip address:0. This seemed to
work
> just fine and I could connect to the Xfree server on
my
> laptop.
>
> I also ran Exceed on my local machine and used the
xterm
> that came with XFree to connect to the Exceed server.
> Again,
> the xterm comes back with a message that it is unable
to
> connect
> to display as before.
>
> Any pointers?
> Thanks,
>
>
> -giri
>
>