I have been running cygwin & X for quite a while. Recently, my setup got corrupted after a setup session gone bad (not sure why). Today, I reinstalled everything (cygwin & xfree) from the internet but I can't start a basic X server. Here's what I get:
$ startx waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . .. .. [repeated many times] .. giving up. xinit: Permission denied (errno 13): unable to connect to X server waiting for X server to shut down xinit: Server error The /tmp/XWin.log doesn't seem to have particularly alarming messages, except for the ownership message that I've read in the mailing list archive to ignore (perhaps it no longer should???) --------------------- ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1600 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1166 1600 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1166 1600 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1594 h 1135 r 1594 l 0 b 1135 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 6376 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winScreenInit - returning Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! ----------------------- Suggestions? -- Nicolas.