Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/11/2009 08:33, Gertjan van Noord wrote: after upgrading to xorg-server 1.7.1-3 starting X does no longer work. Previous version 1.6.? worked. However, I can't seem to go back to that version using the cygwin setup programme. the startxwin.bat script does not complain, but no X logo

Re: Cygwin error

2009-11-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 18/11/2009 17:20, baseball07 wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Could you please type out the syntax. I'm a newbie to Linux code. Thank you very much. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Breuer
Try -noclipboard. I hit this as well. Gertjan van Noord wrote: after upgrading to xorg-server 1.7.1-3 starting X does no longer work. Previous version 1.6.? worked. However, I can't seem to go back to that version using the cygwin setup programme. the startxwin.bat script does not complain,

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-19 Thread Gertjan van Noord
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:18:22AM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote: Try -noclipboard. this solves my problem, many thanks. GJ I hit this as well. Gertjan van Noord wrote: after upgrading to xorg-server 1.7.1-3 starting X does no longer work. Previous version 1.6.? worked. However, I can't

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-19 Thread Gertjan van Noord
the DLL's are all there. Using the other poster's suggestion to use -noclipboard solves my problem, although I have no idea what/why. GJ On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:00:28PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/11/2009 08:33, Gertjan van Noord wrote: after upgrading to xorg-server 1.7.1-3

Re: XWin stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.1 - no log-file created

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Breuer
For what it's worth, I tracked that down yesterday by looking at the error log on the server - there was a complaint about clipboard - don't recall what... seemed innocuous but figured I'd try turning off clipboard. Viola, it worked. One other point - as older versions of CygwinX have major

Re: Cygwin error

2009-11-19 Thread Lothar Brendel
baseball07 wrote: Hi everyone I am getting this error when I try and locally access the Linux machines in my department and try and run a program called Cadence. Does anyone know what this means? Yes, the remote X server can't connect to your local machine, the path to which is contained in

Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I'm running the latest of everything Cygwin 1.7 (see below). When I start the Xwin server from the Windows shortcut: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat I see a bash.exe process running, but no X window comes up, as per: REM Make sure XWin is ready to accept connections before

cygwinx 1.7 beta - crashes runing virt-manager

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Breuer
Connecting to F12 running Gnome, running python based applications causes Xwin to segfault. For example, running virt-manager kills Xwin immediately. Most of the F12 admin tools exhibit this behavior. I tried -swcursor based on some old discussions on this list regarding Java crashing Xwin

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
More info: If I run startxwin.bat from a CMD.exe command line, the bash console xterm opens just fine. I only have problems starting it from the shortcut. I do see some interesting things in the log file, however: MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-19 Thread Eliot Moss
The missing charsets message is symptomatic of not having the patches needed to a couple of X config files concerning UTF-8. If you apply the path, which I think is in the latest Xorg files, then that problem should be fixed. (Assuming you set LANG. You can also try LANG=C as a temporary