[GRASS-windows] failed installation of cygwin and GRASS on windows XP

[Glynn Clements]

Ljuba Veselinova wrote:

> >  Personally, I would suggest starting Cygwin's shell from Windows'
> >  start menu, running "startx" from the shell, then starting GRASS by
> >  running "grass62" from the xterm.
> >
> >  That way, if any of the steps fail, you know which step failed, and
> >  you should also get an error message.
> 
> In fact, all of the above failed. I have no idea what to choose to
> start cygwin from the windows start menu -- there are many things
> listed there.

	Start -> Programs -> Cygwin -> Cygwin Bash Shell

It's the black and green "C" icon.

> I ended up typing startx at the windows cmd line but it
> resulted in a bunch of error messages most of them read
> 
> ' not found
> or something similar

You have to run it from within a Cygwin shell.

> The contents of the XWin.log is appended below
> 
> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> already running

If the X server is running, there will be an X icon in on the
right-hand side of the task bar. If so, quit it and try again.

Also, firewall software can sometimes interfere with the X server.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>