On 11/2/06, Rafael Tapia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Everyone, Today I decided to update my cygwin (probably had not done it in about 3 months) but now it just crashes on me when I try to start X. I did check out mailing list archives and google but no dice. I can't seem to get it to work again.I am trying to run this on WinXP SP2,on an IBM ThinkPad. Again I want to make it clear that it was working this morning. I did not change any network/firewall settings. I do have a firewall up but it was working fine before the update. Here is the message I am getting: [[ snip ]]
Hi Rafael I had exactly the same error. In my case, it had exactly *nothing* to do with firewall, or Windows problems. It happened because I **used** X in the administrator account. (I work on a limited-rights user account, and use the adm account only for install/updates) When launch X as adm, the administrator takes ownership of the /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory, which I believe X needs to access to run. The solution was just to login as adm and change the ownership: adm$ cd /tmp adm$ chown __your_user_name__ .X11-unix After that, X works well *for that user*, as long as you don't try to use X as adm again. (BTW, this is an old issue with Cygwin/X. As a rule of thumb, one should avoid running it as administrator, unless that's how you want to keep using it... Unfortunately, Cygwin/X does not have a mainteiner now, so we don't know how long this "unducumented feature" will still be around.) HTH, Gustavo. -- 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/
