RE: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4) - some additional results

["John Ormerod" <john dot ormerod at erebor dot co dot uk>]

 Reid

Some more results in case they highlight something.

1. After running startxwin.sh, my cmd prompt showed these last lines:
<<
...
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options =
"(null
)"
>>
 
2. I was not put back to the $ prompt, but I could interact with something.
However, this resulted in error messages. After about 3 attempts, I was back
at the $ prompt. XWin etc still running though. No xterm window opened
(assuming one was supposed to)
<<
JOrmerod@EREBOR-JO /usr/X11R6/bin
$ ps -ef
     UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
JOrmerod    3412       1 con  07:53:17 /usr/bin/bash
JOrmerod    4740       1 con  08:06:31 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin
JOrmerod    4368       1 con  08:06:31 /usr/bin/xterm
JOrmerod    1804    4740 con  08:06:36 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
JOrmerod    5400    3412 con  08:37:16 /usr/bin/ps
>>

3. More tests. These may be a bit hard to follow, given no ability to
format. Will do my best.

3.1
==>I entered a: ? (well, why not!)
==> the log and cmd window displayed:
<<
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.2.0-4

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
XWin was started with the following command line:

X 

winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0

Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
>>

==> This also resulted in a GUI error prompt saying much the same thing.

3.2
==> Entered another ? and a CR. Similar or same entries in the log (it gets
overwritten each time)
==> My final CR produced the following in the cmd window, which then exited
whatever it was'in', and put me back to $ prompt (the log did not contain
the same contents)
<<
JOrmerod@EREBOR-JO /usr/X11R6/bin
$ ?Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.2.0-4

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

_XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0

Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.

winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>>

The ps -ef at start of this append, show the three processes still running.
The X icon is in the system tray, but does not respond to mouse clicks.

4.
I exited the shell and then reran cygwin.bat. BTW, it does indeed take 60
secs to start.
The same 3 processes we still running.

I could kill xterm. 
But xkbcomp responded with: bash: kill: (1804) - Resource temporarily
unavailable
And Xwin did nothing.

5. 
Using Windows' Task Mgr to stop processes:
Ending xkbcomp resulted in Xwin going as well!? The cmd window displayed:
<<
JOrmerod@EREBOR-JO ~
$ (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /tmp/server-0.xkm
(EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
(--) 3 mouse buttons found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from li
st!
winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 512 384
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
>>

I'll stop now.

John

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John Ormerod
erebor limited 


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