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Re: Problem starting XWin Server


On 30/07/2011 07:10, Jan Chludzinski wrote:
From within a mintty shell, I get:

$ startxwin

giving up.
startxwin:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
startxwin:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

That's odd. I can't really understand how that can happen. I'd suspect that startxwin is failing to fork/exec Xwin successfully, possibly due to an application causing cygwin difficulties [1] (Unfortunately, 64-bit Windows itself seems to sometimes cause similar problems)


Are you able to start the server directly by running 'XWin'?

[1] http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda

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Jon TURNEY
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