Thanks for the tip. Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the pertinent error message:
Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress Any ideas? I installed the default XFree86 packages. Greg >-----Original Message----- >From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 13:58 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start > > >Greg, > >Look at /tmp/XWin.log. > >Harold > >Greg Jewell wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to >start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive >the following error: >> >> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X >server ":0.0" >> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. >> >> I searched the archives and saw that others were having the >same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but >no solution was offered. >> >> I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources >this morning, but none of them produced different results. >Other than the few times that I've installed the software this >morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously. >(It's a new box.) >> >> Does anybody know how to resolve this? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Greg Jewell >> >> >
