Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my personal account. --snipped-- Start here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I suspect it's either a mount issue, or a permission one. Seeing the output of cygcheck -svr will likely provide enough information to decide which one. Please make sure you *attach* the output, rather than include it in-line. Thanks, Igor. I've had a peek at the file (attached) and I'm none the wiser :-) The file you attached shows a lot of information about your system that's useful for those who know where to look -- saves asking a whole bunch of thy this -- what do you see? questions. According to the cygcheck output, your mounts look good (i.e., you've installed Cygwin for all users). The next step is to look at /tmp/XWin.log for the exact fatal error you get (you mentioned it was non-specific, but didn't paste the exact message in). You aren't trying to run the two X sessions (for the office account and the home one) at the same time, by any chance, are you? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my personal account. --snipped-- Start here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I suspect it's either a mount issue, or a permission one. Seeing the output of cygcheck -svr will likely provide enough information to decide which one. Please make sure you *attach* the output, rather than include it in-line. Thanks, Igor. I've had a peek at the file (attached) and I'm none the wiser :-) The file you attached shows a lot of information about your system that's useful for those who know where to look -- saves asking a whole bunch of thy this -- what do you see? questions. According to the cygcheck output, your mounts look good (i.e., you've installed Cygwin for all users). The next step is to look at /tmp/XWin.log for the exact fatal error you get (you mentioned it was non-specific, but didn't paste the exact message in). You aren't trying to run the two X sessions (for the office account and the home one) at the same time, by any chance, are you? Igor Hi Igor, I'm using the standard 'startxwin.bat', modified only to change %CYGWIN_ROOT% from '\cygwin' to where my newest install was placed. The dialog simply reports the following error: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. ... followed by the usual build info and referral to /tmp/XWin.log I'm attaching the XWin.log from both successful and unsuccessful attemps to start Cygwin/X, each with an appropriate filename suffix. To answer your question: I never use XP's 'Switch User' option. I'm only ever using one instance of Cygwin/X at a time. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I had an older version of Cygwin/X installed prior to the weekend (in the '\cygwin' directory) and this used to work fine on both accounts. Though, back then, neither account was password-protected. This time around, I have sshd running (perfectly) as a XP service and I've obviously decided that password might be an idea :-) so I set them up using the 'passwd' command rather than using the Windows Control Panel. On the surface, it seems to be fine but I don't know whether or not it could be contributing to my woes, so I think it might be worth a mention. Best, Iain. -- 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/
Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account
Iain Campbell wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my personal account. --snipped-- Start here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I suspect it's either a mount issue, or a permission one. Seeing the output of cygcheck -svr will likely provide enough information to decide which one. Please make sure you *attach* the output, rather than include it in-line. Thanks, Igor. I've had a peek at the file (attached) and I'm none the wiser :-) The file you attached shows a lot of information about your system that's useful for those who know where to look -- saves asking a whole bunch of thy this -- what do you see? questions. According to the cygcheck output, your mounts look good (i.e., you've installed Cygwin for all users). The next step is to look at /tmp/XWin.log for the exact fatal error you get (you mentioned it was non-specific, but didn't paste the exact message in). You aren't trying to run the two X sessions (for the office account and the home one) at the same time, by any chance, are you? Igor Hi Igor, I'm using the standard 'startxwin.bat', modified only to change %CYGWIN_ROOT% from '\cygwin' to where my newest install was placed. The dialog simply reports the following error: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. followed by the usual build info and referral to /tmp/XWin.log I'm attaching the XWin.log from both successful and unsuccessful attemps to start Cygwin/X, each with an appropriate filename suffix. To answer your question: I never use XP's 'Switch User' option. I'm only ever using one instance of Cygwin/X at a time. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I had an older version of Cygwin/X installed prior to the weekend (in the '\cygwin' directory) and this used to work fine on both accounts. Though, back then, neither account was password-protected. This time around, I have sshd running (perfectly) as a XP service and I've obviously decided that password might be an idea :-) so I set them up using the 'passwd' command rather than using the Windows Control Panel. On the surface, it seems to be fine but I don't know whether or not it could be contributing to my woes, so I think it might be worth a mention. Best, Iain. Resending, this time with attachments. Sorry :-/ Iain. Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1600 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information (==) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1600 height: 1200 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 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 (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0809 (0809) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (United Kingdom) (809), type 4 (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winClipboardProc - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)
Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the correct way to fix it. Best, Iain. -- 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/
Re: Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Ah, good, that was my next question... :-) I'm glad you found the problem. Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the correct way to fix it. That's exactly the correct way to fix it (well, permissions should really be 0666). There is no other way to allow different users to write to the same file (short of adding individual ACLs, but not all POSIX tools understand those). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
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