Hi I have recently installed XFree86 4.2 on my PC which has WIN 98 and cygwin version 2.194.2.21. I have read the mail archives and have tried all the available options but nothing seems to work. I am giving the results when startx is envoked under bash or startxwin under dos. Both startx and startxwin.bat are as supplied by the installation(which was troublefree).
The output when running startxwin.bat from dos command prompt >>startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) The output when running startx from bash prompt >>startx waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . .. giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. $ XWin -query 127.0.0.1:0.0 opens up the Cygwin/XFree86 window but closes it after a few secs without any error messages. Trying to run Xwin -query to a remote host (which is a Solaris machine) has the same effect. Trying xterm on it's own gives the can't open display error. $ xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1 In both instances the Cygwin/XFree86 window opens but is completely blank(white background), remains for few seconds and then closes. However running XWin has the same response but no error message is printed. I have a PPP and a Realtek RTL8029(AS) Ethernet adapter. Below is the output of ipconfig /all Windows 98 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . : NKANSARA DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 203.134.24.70 203.134.26.70 Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . : IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : No 0 Ethernet adapter : Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter. Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-00 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 210.50.202.191 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : 210.50.202.191 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Primary WINS Server . . . . : Secondary WINS Server . . . : Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 01 01 80 12:00:00 Lease Expires . . . . . . . : 01 01 80 12:00:00 1 Ethernet adapter : Description . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8029(AS) Ethernet Adapt Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-4F-49-00-73-37 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 169.254.14.92 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Primary WINS Server . . . . : Secondary WINS Server . . . : Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 03 30 02 10:50:46 Lease Expires . . . . . . . : Below is the output of netstat -a $ netstat -a Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP nkansara:1088 NKANSARA:0 LISTENING TCP nkansara:137 NKANSARA:0 LISTENING TCP nkansara:138 NKANSARA:0 LISTENING TCP nkansara:nbsession NKANSARA:0 LISTENING TCP nkansara:137 NKANSARA:0 LISTENING TCP nkansara:138 NKANSARA:0 LISTENING TCP nkansara:nbsession NKANSARA:0 LISTENING UDP nkansara:1088 *:* UDP nkansara:nbname *:* UDP nkansara:nbdatagram *:* UDP nkansara:nbname *:* UDP nkansara:nbdatagram *:* Though the ping works well on 127.0.0.1 $ ping 127.0.0.1 Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms Some of the solutions tried by me are: 1)setting the ecvironment valiable OS and DISPLAY 2)trying various sets of ip address such as 0.0.0.0 It seems to me that either it cannot connect to 127.0.0.1 or the connection can't be maintained. Any suggestions/pointers/references would be highly appreciated. Thanks Naveen