Re: Cannot open display problem?

[Enoch Wu <ewu at eskimo dot com>]

Patrick,

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:26:03PM -0700, Patrick Hung wrote:
> I tried out startx from the cygwin bash prompt and get "descriptor is file,
> not socket" error message.  I think there's a similar thread in the cygwin
> mailing list.  Not sure if they are related...

See recent posts to the Cygwin Mailing List. Try ftp in bash and see if
you get the same error message. If you can, also try telnet.

EW


> Here's the output:
> 
> > startx
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winCreateBoundingWIndowWindowed () - WindowClient width 640 height 480
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 000f800 000007e0 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> 
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connection .
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> giving up.
> xinit:  The descriptor is a file, not a socket (errno 108): unable to
> connect to X server
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down
> 
> xinit:   Server error.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:44 AM
> Subject: RE: Cannot open display problem?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Try starting xterm from a bash shell, after starting xwin.
> > You may have more messages then only "cannot open display".
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Patrick Hung [mailto:hung@Umunhum.Stanford.EDU]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:04 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > Subject: Cannot open display problem?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am still getting "cannot open display" error message with
> > > Windows ME when I use xterm, xhost, ...  As described by
> > > others, I can run xterm, twm, etc. from the other machines
> > > (Sun, Windows 98, etc.) but not from the local host (Windows
> > > ME).  I am using cygwin1.dll from 4/14 snapshot and 4/14
> > > xfree binaries.  X is started with the following command.
> > >
> > >     start XWin -engine 1 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -ac
> > >
> > > Please ignore this message if you are still working on this problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> >
> 
> 
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