RE: X server won't start in win95a

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> Harold:
> 
> There is nothing. A window with the XWin title comes out with 
> a blank black
> screen and just sits there. When I close it manually, the 
> message says 
> "Windows cannot shut down the program automatically, blah 
> blah blah...".

Ummmmmmmmm.... that sounds very familiar from 1995 when Windows95 was
released.  YOUR WIDNOWS IS MESSED UP.  YOU NEED TO REINSTALL IT.
Microsoft should start providing a dialogue box when Windows messed, a
dialogue box pops-up and should say, 'PLEASE FORMAT YOUR DISK AND REINSTALL
WINDOWS BECAUSE I AM ALL MESSED UP." :-)

Suhaib

> As I
> said, it seems that the X server starts partially, but would 
> not accept
> connections. If I run startx from the bash prompt, I get the message
> "Waiting for the X server to begin accepting connections" 
> followed by many
> periods. Is there a way to get XWin to reveal its secrets?
> 
> Raymond
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:42:06PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > Raymond,
> > 
> > I need to see the output that XWin.exe generates upon an 
> attempted startup.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Harold
>