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Re: Errors when starting Cygwin/X on Windows XP SP2
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:20:25 -0600
- Subject: Re: Errors when starting Cygwin/X on Windows XP SP2
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Joseph Myers wrote:
> I am getting the following errors when I attempt to start the Cygwin/X
> system on my Windows XP SP2 machine:
>
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> Have any other users reported this error?
I haven't seen that error message but it looks like it is a firewall problem:
xinit uses a tcp and an udp port (XWin uses a bunch of them).
Check if XWin is enabled in the Exceptions list of Windows Firewall.
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René Berber
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