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RE: Can't open display w/Cygwin on Win XP
- From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 13:28:19 -0500
- Subject: RE: Can't open display w/Cygwin on Win XP
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Bob,
So, the wording of your question suggests that what you really meant to say
was, ``I have a firewall/VNC product installed, but I don't think that is
the problem.'' Is that the case or not?
If you do have firewall/VNC software installed, I can assure you that it
most likely IS the problem; the fact that other software works fine has no
bearing on whether or not Cygwin/XFree86 will work fine. You see,
Cygwin/XFree86 is heavily dependent upon TCP/IP working exactly correctly.
Remember, we are not just using the Win32 API for TCP/IP... we are using
Cygwin to emulate the POSIX/UNIX interface to TCP/IP using the Win32 API
TCP/IP calls. This requires taking advantage of some peculiarities of the
Win32 API TCP/IP interface. Can you assure us that your firewall/VNC vendor
implemented each and every one of those peculiarities correctly? If not,
then we just have to assume that the firewall/VNC software is the problem.
We have dealt with this issue several times in the past and the correlation
between Cygwin/XFree86 not working and firewall/VNC software being the blame
is about 100% in cases where firewall/VNC software was ever installed on the
machine.
Yeah, that's another little bit about the firewall/VNC software: some of the
vendors are sloppy and their uninstall routines do not replace the original
Win32 API TCP/IP DLLs... they just leave their own in place. We have had
people that have uninstalled firewall/VNC software and still could not get
Cygwin/XFree86 to work. Then they reinstalled Windows and Cygwin/XFree86
worked. As a final test they reinstalled the firewall/VNC software and
Cygwin/XFree86 broke. They uninstalled the firewall/VNC software and
Cygwin/XFree86 was still broken.
That was all in the mailing list archives, but I felt like writing about it
for some reason.
Hope that helps,
Harold
P.S. Oh yeah, and if you have never installed firewall/VNC software on your
Windows machine, then kindly disregard the above. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Robert Gottesman
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:58 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Can't open display w/Cygwin on Win XP
Starting Cygwin/Xfree86 (4.2) with starxwin.bat or startxwin.sh
or startx ends up with the same message them .. Can't open display.
Message from startxwin.sh
>sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
Agent pid 2212
xsetroot: unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'
>Sun Jan 19 09:42 AM [~]
>twm: unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
I'm running Win XP w/cygwin 1.3.18-1
The FAQ refers to a potential firewall problem ..
which (i believe) is not the case ..
as I run many many other TCP/IP apps on this PC with no problem.
I am at a lost where to start .. as I believe this may have to do
with XP (not seeing any other probable solutions in the archives).
attached is my cygcheck file
-Bob Gottesman