bad installation ?

[Banibrata Dutta <banibrata dot dutta at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

Could anybody explain the following behaviour or Cygwin and "startx"
in Cygwin...

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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 ~
$

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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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