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Cannot start X server
- From: Nicolas F Rouquette <nicolas dot rouquette at jpl dot nasa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:14:59 -0700
- Subject: Cannot start X server
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I have been running cygwin & X for quite a while. Recently, my setup got
corrupted after a setup session gone bad (not sure why).
Today, I reinstalled everything (cygwin & xfree) from the internet but I
can't start a basic X server. Here's what I get:
$ startx
waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
..
.. [repeated many times]
..
giving up.
xinit: Permission denied (errno 13): unable to connect to X server
waiting for X server to shut down
xinit: Server error
The /tmp/XWin.log doesn't seem to have particularly alarming messages,
except for the ownership message that I've read in the mailing list
archive to ignore
(perhaps it no longer should???)
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ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1600 h 1200
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits
per pixel
winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1166 1600
winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1166 1600
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1594 h 1135 r 1594 l 0
b 1135 t 0
winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 6376
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24
bpp 32
winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
winScreenInit - returning
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
removing from list!
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Suggestions?
-- Nicolas.