After upgrading Cygwin the X Server does not start. As far as I can tell the only error message from the command output is:
xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1
/var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log does not have this message. I have pasted the entire output is at the bottom.
After initally installing from a cygwin mirror, I had used Cygwin Ports to get a recent version of git. My latest update was from Cygwin mirror. Could that have caused the problem?
I have already tried reinstalling everything from cygwin mirror, using the reinstall option for every category. Do I have any other option besides uninstalling everything and reinstalling?
$ /usr/bin/startxwin Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.16.2.0 OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 OAKN00563024A 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:47 x86_64 OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (Win64) Package: version 1.16.2-1 built 2014-11-11 XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp -auth /home/I063510/.serverauth.1328 (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information LoadPreferences: /home/I063510/.XWinrc not found LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000015 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1600 height: 900 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel glWinSelectGLimplementation: Loaded 'cygnativeGLthunk.dll' GL_VERSION: 4.3.0 GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation GL_RENDERER: Quadro K2100M/PCIe/SSE2 (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGIX_pbuffer (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_multisample and GLX_SGIS_multisample (II) 1002 pixel formats reported by wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB (II) AIGLX: Set GLX version to 1.4 (II) 825 fbConfigs (II) ignored pixel formats: 0 not OpenGL, 54 RBGA float, 87 RGBA unsigned float, 0 unknown pixel type, 36 unaccelerated (II) GLX: Initialized Win32 native WGL GL provider for screen 0 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 800 450 (--) 8 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000409" (00000409) "US", type 7 (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (USA)" (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardThreadProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 OS maintains clipboard viewer chain: yes winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop. winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. winClipboardIOErrorHandler! winMultiWindowXMsgProcIOErrorHandler! winInitMultiWindowXMsgProc - Caught IO Error. Exiting. winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
I met the same problem after CygWin upgrade.
xwin works fine for me, and it's clean, without the ugly xterm window.
alias runx="run xwin -multiwindow -noclipboard"
According to Daniel, "-noclipboard" is not a must, Thanks.