Cannot start X server

[Walter.Justen]

Hi there,

i have seen the enclosed mail from Nicolas at the archive. I have the same problems. First the xserver works fine, after a reboot of the systems it dont work again.

Is the a solution ...

regards
Walter


* From: Nicolas F Rouquette
* Subject: Cannot start X server
* Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:48:29 -0700

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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???)

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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!
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Suggestions?

-- Nicolas.