On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced in one way or > another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs. > Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By observing which files > were written where, and as a consequence setting up links using > ln -s /dev/null /tmp/Xwin.log > ln -s /dev/null /var/run/utmp > it really seemed that I had addressed all problems: in repeated uses, > nothing new was written to the stick at all. I then burned a CD, but > disappointingly XWin "dies" as soon as it is started. That is, I start the > process with bash, and then try > XWin -multiwindow & > which I would normally follow with > rxvt -display localhost:0.0 -e bash > but XWin does not persist. (Sorry: I don't know how to express what happens > other than to say it "dies" immediately.) > This is VERY disappointing. Any clues to what else I might try? > What is your display variable set to? Do you have a /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 file on your memory stick? That might be the issue.
> By the way, in mounting the portable version, I have already established > that the directory /cygdrive/c/tmp/ must exist, so I suppose I could try > ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp/XWin.log /tmp/XWin.log > before burning to CD. (I've already made 5 coasters. At this rate I'll be > able to floor the bathroom.) > Thanks. > Fergus > -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444
