Re: X server won't start in win95a

[Raymond Kwong <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>]

OK, finally I am getting some information which I hope will help. I uninstalled
winsock2, using the batch file in the ws2bakup directory (the winsock backup
directory). I ran startx after that. This is the message I got:

_X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for local
_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for local/bragi.control.utoronto.ca:0

This message repeats until I hit CTRL-C. With that, the message repeat one
more time, and the following is appended at the end:

../usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: Addresses in the specified family cannot be used with 
this socket (errno 106): unexpected signal 2.

Let me know what I should try next. I hope it would be something less than
reinstalling networking!

Raymond

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:54:22AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> > The only thing I have noticed so far between the working and the
> > non-working win95 systems is that the non-working one has winsock
> > upgraded, to version 2 I believe. Don't know if this is relevant, just
> > another tidbit for you to consider.
> > 
> > Thank you, Suhaib and Harold, for all your efforts. Although I have 2
> > non-working installations, I have 4 working ones, 1 win95a, 1 win98, 2
> > w2k. I must say they look good.
> > 
> > I am going to wipe out win95 on one of the non-working machines and
> > install win98, and then cygwin and X. We'll see what happens. I still
> > have the other non-working machine to try out your new suggestions,
> > including possibly reinstalling networking, if that is felt to be the
> > most likely cause.
> 
> 
> Winsock2 can be problem here.  When winsock2 was released as an optional
> package for Windows95, I remember installing then replacing it with Winsock
> which shipped with Win95.  Because it
> was giving problems on Windows95.
> 
> If you uninstall Networking from Control Panel and reinstall it using your
> Windows95, Winsock2 will be replaced with Winsock from Win95 CD.  It might
> help.  Let us know.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> > 
> > Raymond
> >