I have little experience with Cygwin, since I normally do not use Microsoft operating systems; but it is precisely for that reason that I do install cygwin whenever I have to work on a Microsoft system -- for example, when I remove the viruses (Malwarebytes, as per a friend's recommendation) from someone else's Windows XP laptop, which I have been doing for the past couple of days, not because I know anything about Windows, but because I know more than anyone else around here.
Anyway, the viruses are all gone now, but it was a fair amount of work, and in order to make the experience even remotely tolerable, I installed Cygwin on this laptop, which is my reward, to myself, for having done this fellow a favor. But I am encountering a curious error. The "xinit" command creates a root window, but then after a minute, or maybe less, the root window disappears and the command exits with the error message, inter alia, XIO: fatal IO error 108 (Socket operation on non-socket) on X server ":0" after 7 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining. winClipboardproc - XOpenDisplay() returned and successfully opened the display waiting for X server to shut down There is more, but you get the idea. Since I almost never use Cygwin, I have little notion of what may be wrong (when I have used Cygwin in the past, I never saw this error message), but if you can diagnose this problem from where you are sitting, or if you can give me a workaround even without diagnosing the problem, please do me the kindness of telling me what to do. I do not normally read this mailing list (an understatement, I never read this mailing list), but you may contact me using any of the means indicated below. Thank you in advance for any and all replies to this inquiry. Jay F. Shachter 6424 N Whipple St Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice j...@m5.chicago.il.us "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/