Re: problem...please help...

[Benoit Ledoux <Benoit dot Ledoux at free dot fr>]

H i Firoz,

You should check that you do not have a firewall running. I had the same 
problem and it was due to my firewall: it was refusing the connection to 
the X server.

Benoit
Firoz Vohra wrote:

> Hi..
>
> I am kinda new to cygwin and am trying to configure X
> server on cygwin and i am getting following error
> msg....
>
> The output when running startx from bash prompt
> startx
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
> ..
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to
> connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>
> I have looked on the default log file and it doesn't
> list any problems...
>
> here it goes...
>
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
>
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
>
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
>
> _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 00000017
>
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
>
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display
> depth of 32 bits per pixel
>
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 740 1024
>
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 740 1024
>
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1018
> h 715 r 1018 l 0 b 715 t 0
>
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning
>
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 4072
>
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00
> 000000ff
>
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00
> 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
>
> winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to
> fbCreateDefColormap ()
>
> winScreenInit - returning
>
> the other ways of trying to run X ( via dos) result in
> same thing....although both the methods do give me a
> new X window, but there isn't anything in it.
>
> I have looked the mailing archieve and it seems people
> had problems with default font which isn't in my
> case...
>
> any help would b greatly appriciated...
>
> thanking in advance...
>
> Firoz.
>
>
>
>
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