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bad installation ?
- From: Banibrata Dutta <banibrata dot dutta at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:53:24 +0530
- Subject: bad installation ?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: Banibrata Dutta <banibrata dot dutta at gmail dot com>
Hi,
Could anybody explain the following behaviour or Cygwin and "startx"
in Cygwin...
<capture>
Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that
the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group
Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
dutta@obbani ~
$ startx
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH
Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and
that "X" is a program or a link to the right type of server
for your display. Possible server names include:
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
dutta@obbani ~
$
</capture>
I had installed Cygwin as "Administrator" for this machine, and I am
able to successfully run X by doing cygwin terminal when I am logged
in as "Administrator", but when I am logged in as "dutta" the above
behaviour is what I see. Could someone please help ?
thanks & regards,
bdutta
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