Re: Window-95 (WIN95) and CYGWIN, unable to open display

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Georg,

You more than likely just got a bad version of the Cygwin or one of the 
Cygwin packages... we have been working on fixing a few bugs over the 
last few weeks.  Please run Cygwin's setup.exe again and let it grab any 
packages that have been updated.  Then report to us if you still have 
the same problems on Windows 95.

Harold

G-F-I@t-online.de wrote:
> Last week (14 of Nov. 2002) i downloaded CYGWIN, installed it on
> WIN98, all works fine. All WIN-Computers are connected in a LAN with
> my LINUX-Server. With CYGWIN on WIN98 i can do all, that i need:
> rlogin, rsh, ftp, telnet.  And of course use CYGWIN as X-Server for
> programs, that run under linux.
>
> Now i wanted to install CYGWIN on a WIN95-computer, there i have problems:
> o as with WIN98 i used startxwin.sh, the X-Server starts, i can see it,
>   it runs, i can move for instance the mouse. But then i can see the
>   messages vom twm, xsetroot and xterm: ..
>   unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'. I could see, that the X-Server
>   did something, changed colour to black, went off, came
>   again.
> o To test what happens i startet first XWin.exe, waited until it was
>   running, then i made: xhost +. Again the message: .. unable to
>   open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'. The X-Server changed to black, diappeared,
>   came again with the colour, before i made "xhost". 
> o Then i made the next attempt: i startet XWin.exe, and tried on my
>   LINUX-computer: DISPLAY=192.0.2.10:0.0 ; export DISPLAY ; xterm.
>   I got the answer from the WIN-95-X-Server, that this is not allowed.
>   This was what i expected, because xhost did not run correctly und
>   WIN95-CYGWIN.
> o I made the next attempt: on WIN-95, under CYGWIN BASH, i made:
>   telnet 192.0.2.112, i got the Login-Prompt from LINUX to enter the
>   name, but when i typed the first letter of my Login-Name, this letter
>   was endless repeated. I made the same attempt on another WIN-95-
>   Computer, exakt the same, with telnet the first letter i entered was
>   repeated endless. Then i testen on WIN-98, there telnet did all right.
>   This shows: under WIN95 there is something other than in WIN98. Perhaps
>   there is the problem, as the programs speak with the X-Server over
>   net-moduls, as ist telnet does. rlogin and ftp worked correctly under
>   WIN95, in opposite to telnet.
>
> All my computers have fixed IP-Adresses (WIN-95: 192.0.2.10, LINUX: 192.0.2.112).
>
> Perhaps you can help me. If not, i know, that CYGWIN only works fine with
> NEWER WIN-Operating-Systems. Perhaps i have an problem with errors in WIN-95.
> I made the test also on an newly
> installed WIN-95-computer, with ONLY WIN-95 installed, nothing other. 
> Also on this computer i got the error-message " unable to open display ..",
> and also telnet repeats the firs letter of my Login-Name endless.
>
> Georg Fischer
>
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