Re: "X connection to 127.0. ...explicit kill..."

[Ed Conrad <epconrad at acsu dot buffalo dot edu>]

Nikolaus Bates-Haus wrote:

> I ran into something like this setting up my home machine, to which I
> don't have access right now.
> It ended up being an issue with host / DISPLAY configuration; check out
> your /etc/hosts and make sure the entries make sense. I remember I had
> to do something with localhost and/or my chosen hostname, and 127.0.0.1,
> to get it to work.

I dont have that directory.
The only host files I found are in a perl scripts folders about 5 levels under the
root.  I did not see any display stuff like you talk about in any of them.  Is
there no one who knows why I cant get my window up?

>
> I think that what's happening is that XWin.exe starts, but all clients
> fail to connect, so it just shuts down immediately.
> I ended up setting my DISPLAY to something other than the default, as well
> (try setting your DISPLAY to be just ":0" rather than "127.0.0.1:0")
>

I tried that in bash, nota.

> -nik
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:01:58AM -0500, Ed Conrad wrote:
> > Why don't you please re-read the original message.   I explained what happens
> > when I run the bat files.
> >
> > The path in the bat files are correct or it would not open the xwindow in the
> > first place!  You cant even open startx with the wrong path. I get the startx
> > window, the window after that and then the xwin pops up for a second or so
> > before it crashes.
> >
> > Something is going wrong when the xwindow is first opend.  The fact that I
> > can't run XWin.exe is just a clue I included because the user guide says I
> > should be able to run it.
> > Andrew Markebo wrote:
> >
> > > / Ed Conrad <epconrad@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> > > | cygwin is installd.  This is a bug or somekind or config problem i have.
> > >
> > > *bonk* you are trying to run Xwin.exe, what happens if you run
> > >  startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh??
> > >
> > > Basically the problem is that the environment variable PATH doesn't
> > > contain c:\cygwin\bin, or where you installed cygwin. If I recall
> > > right the startxwin-scripts sets this, but if you want to run without
> > > them, you have to set the path yourself.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > | > | If I try to run XWin.exe, it says that it cant find
> > > | > | cygwin1.dll.
> > >
> > >         /Andy
> > > --
> > >  The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!
> >