RE: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4) - results
Reid I did as you requested - see below. BTW, there is a delay of 3-4 seconds for cmds like 'ps -ef'. Is this normal? (Thinkpad T41 with 2Gb RAM) Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat. I did this from cmd prompt. It appeared to be stuck for what seemed a long time - though maybe it was actually between 30-60 secs. Then the prompt came alive and resized itself. -- make sure that X is not running,,, $ ps -ef | grep X should not list Xwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps -ef | grep X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps -ef UID PIDPPID TTY STIME COMMAND JOrmerod3412 1 con 07:53:17 /usr/bin/bash JOrmerod40083412 con 07:58:20 /usr/bin/ps --- from the command line call $ startxwin.sh what does this result in? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/John Ormerod [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ startxwin.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ 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: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (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/TT F/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/ lib/ X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ winPrefsLoadPreferences: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: syntax error, unexpected STRING line 1 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless = ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff 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 winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello 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 shar ed 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 Rules = xorg Model = pc105 Layout = gb Variant = (null) Options = (null ) -- I did some further investigations - results in separate append to keep this one down in size Regards, John --- John Ormerod erebor limited -Original Message- From: Reid Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2005 00:22 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4) Try the following. Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat. make sure that X is not running,,, $ ps -ef | grep X should not list Xwin from the command line call $ startxwin.sh what does this result in? -- 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: Is my X Server not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)
See below. Jack Tanner wrote: John Ormerod wrote: I get the X icon showing in the system tray, but it's 'dead'. By which I mean there I no context menu for it - I get the impression from reading around that there should be a menu... even if only to stop it. If I let the mouse pointer hover over it, the tool tip says: Cygwin/X Server - 0:0 The icon in the system tray is supposed to react to two inputs: - a double-click with the left mouse button should trigger the Exit dialog - a right-click should pop up a menu that is trivially simple until customized with an xwinrc file. Does yours react to neither? Jack The X icon in the system tray does not respond to any mouse clicks. Currently this was started from within the bash shell as requested by Reid. I also wonder if the 'xterm' should open an xterm window in Windows? It doesn't. FWIW, my windows PATH is 897 bytes when %xxx% symbolics are resolved. So when the .bat scripts append to the front it may be getting to whatever limit Windows has these days, or a possible limit that Cygwin can handle. Regards, John --- John Ormerod erebor limited -- 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: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4) - some additional results
Reid Some more results in case they highlight something. 1. After running startxwin.sh, my cmd prompt showed these last lines: ... (--) Using preset keyboard for English (United Kingdom) (809), type 4 Rules = xorg Model = pc105 Layout = gb Variant = (null) Options = (null ) 2. I was not put back to the $ prompt, but I could interact with something. However, this resulted in error messages. After about 3 attempts, I was back at the $ prompt. XWin etc still running though. No xterm window opened (assuming one was supposed to) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ ps -ef UID PIDPPID TTY STIME COMMAND JOrmerod3412 1 con 07:53:17 /usr/bin/bash JOrmerod4740 1 con 08:06:31 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin JOrmerod4368 1 con 08:06:31 /usr/bin/xterm JOrmerod18044740 con 08:06:36 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp JOrmerod54003412 con 08:37:16 /usr/bin/ps 3. More tests. These may be a bit hard to follow, given no ability to format. Will do my best. 3.1 ==I entered a: ? (well, why not!) == the log and cmd window displayed: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root XWin was started with the following command line: X winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0 Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting. == This also resulted in a GUI error prompt saying much the same thing. 3.2 == Entered another ? and a CR. Similar or same entries in the log (it gets overwritten each time) == My final CR produced the following in the cmd window, which then exited whatever it was'in', and put me back to $ prompt (the log did not contain the same contents) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ ?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: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0 Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting. winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). The ps -ef at start of this append, show the three processes still running. The X icon is in the system tray, but does not respond to mouse clicks. 4. I exited the shell and then reran cygwin.bat. BTW, it does indeed take 60 secs to start. The same 3 processes we still running. I could kill xterm. But xkbcomp responded with: bash: kill: (1804) - Resource temporarily unavailable And Xwin did nothing. 5. Using Windows' Task Mgr to stop processes: Ending xkbcomp resulted in Xwin going as well!? The cmd window displayed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /tmp/server-0.xkm (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 512 384 winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress I'll stop now. John --- John Ormerod erebor limited -- 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/
Using Cygwin instead of SFU 3.5?
Hello
What got me into Cygwin and the problems I'm having is the need to practice
with a product prior to a Proof of Concept.
The product has a fairly complex install - which I will take a step at a
time. It can run in various Unix flavours and Windows. However, for Win it
states that you need to install Services For Unix 3.5. I've not been able to
get the download to work. So I decided to try reversing things by installing
in Vmware/Linux and accessing from Win.
From what I have seen ('learned' is perhaps too strong a word) over the past
two days, Cygwin - or maybe it's just the bash shell - might be able to
function as a substitute.
As of now, I have no idea how the product invokes SFU, neither to I have any
idea how the product (or any other) would invoke Cygwin 'from outside', so
to speak.
Can anyone offer a clue as to how I can integrate Cygwin in to Windows so
that it will support apps running in Windows like my product? Could it be as
simple as adding to PATH permanently, the same directories used in
startxwin.bat?
---
John Ormerod
erebor limited
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Can't display remote clients
Apologies if I'm pumping out too much information on my problems. Have gone through the User Guide in search of inspiration. At the end in the section on Displaying Remote Clients - Telnet, I thought I'd found a possibility - sadly no. However, the results might provide a cue as to why my install / system is failing to work. From the manual: 1. Make sure you have the inetutils package installed. == I did not have this as it was not in the X11 package. Found it and installed. 2. Launch Cygwin/X == I assumed this meant runing cygwin.bat to start bash. Took a long time, but eventually got a $ prompt. 3. In an X terminal type /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost remote_hostname_or_ip_address == This failed - maybe there's a good clue here, especially the for display name? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost rhlwasone /usr/X11R6/bin/xhost: unable to open display 4. In an X terminal type /usr/bin/telnet remote_hostname_or_ip_address.Use the explicit path to ensure that Cygwin's telnet is run instead of Microsoft's telnet; Microsoft's telnet will crash on startup when run from Cygwin/X. 5. Login to your remote machine via your telnet session 6. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_hostname_or_ip_address:0.0 7. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY == I continued to see what would happen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/bin/telnet rhlwasone Trying 192.168.183.128... Connected to rhlwasone. Escape character is '^]'. Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) Kernel 2.4.18-14 on an i686 login: ormeroj Password: Last login: Thu Sep 15 08:11:40 from ereborjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ormeroj]$ DISPLAY=ereborjo:0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ormeroj]$ export DISPLAY 8. You can now launch remote X clients in your telnet session, for example, xterm will launch an xterm running on your remote host that will display on your Cygwin/X screen. == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ormeroj]$ xterm [1] 5066 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ormeroj]$ xterm Xt error: Can't open display: ereborjo:0.0 John --- John Ormerod erebor limited -- 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: Can't display remote clients
John Ormerod wrote: you have to give permissions for remotes hosts to open apps on your server. in a cygwin bash prompt enter $ xhost + note that this will give 'everyone' permissions to open a window on your server. you could do $ xhost ip-addr-of-machine-you-want-to-allow-to-open-apps or man xhost to see more info. It should not take more than a few seconds to open a cygwin bash prompt. If i dbl-click on cygwin-bat, it takes about 3 secs for a bash prompt window to be ready for use. 2+ghz intel, with 1GB ram. same with my home machine 2500XP athlon with 512MB ram. ( i normally open a bash session in rxvt ( can't stand cmd.exe ), and it also takes ~3 secs to be ready ) My suggestion is this. make sure no cygwin processes are running ( ps -ef ) return to www.cygwin.com, re-run setup for cygwin, selecting to re-install all of the non-X applications that you have installed. When that has completed, re-run setup again, selecting to re-install all of the X applications that you have installed. go ahead and reboot. ( shouldn't be necessary, but lets do so anyway) dbl-click on c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat Make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH. $ echo $PATH ( if not in there, export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin)( you can add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile if needed) Make sure the display is set correctly: $ env |grep DISPLAY ( what does this show ) Mine: $ env |grep DISP DISPLAY=:0 run $ startxwin.sh open another bash shell via cygwin.bat run $ xterm reid -- 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/
Could not init font path element problem
Okay when I'm trying to launch xwin from Cygwin prompt I get a Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list. In the Cygwin/X FAQ, they say to fix this problem by a. Open a Cygwin shell and run *umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts * -- When I do that, it just say No such file or directory even though it exist. Probably isn't mounted I guess. What's that mean? Then I have to reinstall the xorg font package. I tried to no avail. How can I get the correct font element? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- 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: Can't display remote clients
When I first downloaded and installed cygwin my ulterior motive was - if there are free complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers, Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of software for X/Win on Windows. My ulterior was, where I would prove to those charging an arm and some toes and yet would not do a proper job in what they sell. But to my dismay, cygwin as installed would not work. It kept giving me cygwin1.dll not found. Some two months later I made another attempt. Somehow, somewhere, somewhat, the installation went as smoothly as sailboat gliding down the calm Casco Bay on a warm summer day. My impression was my success was due to my visiting a till now yet unrecallable site which preset all the download choices so that it knew that my motive was to use X/win. Don't you hate it after a PC shop (which should remain nameless) had acquired a venerable mini- mainframe shop (which too should remain unnamed but whose founder once berated that the difference between Unix and his venerable system was the dismally small number of shelves it takes to house all of Unix manuals) - that when I tried to access some information on the acquiree's product, the links point me to the acquirer's site, which in turn pointed me back to the acquiree web site. Not directly but, going through the pretense of navigating a few links before lopping the ball back-and-forth onto each other's court. Fortunately, that PC shop was itself later acquired by a more coherently customer-focused company. This convoluted and obsfuscating email illustrate my frustration getting information and education about how to set up cygwin properly. That when setting up to use cygwin/X-Free, my proper attitude should be - it is cygwin that I am setting up and X-Free is a beneficial ported software. There might be, but it is not within my ineffable capability to find a unified coherent instructional site on cygwin applications. Despite the fact that not having cygwin/X, cygwin is nearly useless for most people, who seems to have similar motivation (or mismotivation) to mine. In my opinion, the orthogonality maintained between cygwin information and cygwin/X information is an unhelpful myth for participants like myself. But I have to bear in mind, that cygwin presents itself to me as a loosely confederated people like me, unlike the more tight-knit Tomcat, Eclipse or NetBeans projects with major interest sponsors behind them. On the other hand in cygwin, probably but not necessarily and not limited to people struggling between embattled personal lives and enthusiasm for communal software. Bearing in mind, therefore, it is therefore not free ware. It costs me to find and look and experiment. Therefore, I recommend that the confederation of cygwin users and porters collaborate to maintain a dependency chart page - which shows for example, if I wanted cygwin/X, what modules could be recommended selected when running setup.exe. Also, many emails seem to point to the confusion between an XDM and an XWM. That people installed cygwin/X but their xterms and xclock just piled up unmoveably at the top left corner of the X frame. This amount of confusion does point to a need for a more unified web site and cygwin organisation. If you (the venerable leaders of cygwin, i.e.) agree and need help, hineni. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Ormerod Sent: Thu, September 15, 2005 7:38 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Can't display remote clients Apologies if I'm pumping out too much information on my problems. Have gone through the User Guide in search of inspiration. At the end in the section on Displaying Remote Clients - Telnet, I thought I'd found a possibility - sadly no. However, the results might provide a cue as to why my install / system is failing to work. -- 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: Could not init font path element problem
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:58:51AM -0400, Francois Couillard wrote: Okay when I'm trying to launch xwin from Cygwin prompt I get a Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list. In the Cygwin/X FAQ, they say to fix this problem by a. Open a Cygwin shell and run *umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts * -- When I do that, it just say No such file or directory even though it exist. Probably isn't mounted I guess. What's that mean? Then I have to reinstall the xorg font package. I tried to no avail. How can I get the correct font element? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Unless you want those fonts for a particular reason, I wouldn't worry about it, as those type errors are non-fatal. My Cygwin/X runs fine with the following errors: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! Regards, Ken -- 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: Can't display remote clients
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:08:15AM -0400, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: When I first downloaded and installed cygwin my ulterior motive was - if there are free complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers, Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of software for X/Win on Windows. My ulterior was, where I would prove to those charging an arm and some toes and yet would not do a proper job in what they sell. But to my dismay, cygwin as installed would not work. It kept giving me cygwin1.dll not found. Some two months later I made another attempt. Somehow, somewhere, somewhat, the installation went as smoothly as sailboat gliding down the calm Casco Bay on a warm summer day. Since there are no details here, it is impossible to know what went wrong. However, since cygwin1.dll is the main engine behind every cygwin program, it's hard to see what you did wrong when installing unless you went out of your way to de-select it when you ran setup.exe. My impression was my success was due to my visiting a till now yet unrecallable site which preset all the download choices so that it knew that my motive was to use X/win. So, you went to some non-cygwin site and used some unsupported method to install. It's a shame that you can't remember where you went since you'd undoubtedly want to complain there. As a clue, the way to install X is to click on Install Cygwin Now! on the web site, hit Next until you have to choose a mirror, choose a mirror, and then once you get to the Select Packages screen click on the Default next to X11 until it says Install. Then keep clicking on Next. Then you run c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat to start X. The rest of your message was too convoluted and obfuscating to really make much sense of, so [snip] -- Christopher Faylor spammer? - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader[EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- 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: Can't display remote clients
Soong, SylokeJ wrote: When I first downloaded and installed cygwin my ulterior motive was - if there are free complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers, Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of software for X/Win on Windows. My ulterior was, where I would prove to those charging an arm and some toes and yet would not do a proper job in what they sell. when it's all said and done it's pretty simple, go to www.cygwin.com, run setup to install base packages. Run setup again to install X packages. I think that the pages http://x.cygwin.com/ and www.cygwin.com and http://cygwin.com/docs.html provide pretty straightforward instructions. Downloading and Installing Install Cygwin/X now Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. Using Cygwin/X is documented in a step-by-step manner, with lots of pictures and examples, in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Please notice, however, that Cygwin/X contains many general-purpose programs, libraries, and functions that are part of all X distributions. It is therefore beyond the scope of the Cygwin/X User's Guide to document all of these X Window System components. To find documentation, for example, for setxkbmap one should consult the generic X documentation such as the SETXKBMAP(1) manual page. You could always, of course, do a Google search for setxkbmap, which finds the manual page mentioned above. reid -- 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: Is my X Server not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)
John Ormerod wrote: The X icon in the system tray does not respond to any mouse clicks. Weird. This one is beyond me. I also wonder if the 'xterm' should open an xterm window in Windows? It doesn't. It should, once Xwin.exe (which also produces the X icon) is running. FWIW, my windows PATH is 897 bytes when %xxx% symbolics are resolved. So when the .bat scripts append to the front it may be getting to whatever limit Windows has these days, or a possible limit that Cygwin can handle. If you suspect PATH length may be an issue, try abbreviating it as a test (i.e., cut out a huge chunk of the directories it points to, and try Cygwin/X again). I doubt this is related, though. Does anyone know if Cygwin and Cygwin/X have been tested under VMware? -- 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: Can't display remote clients
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:06:00AM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: go to www.cygwin.com, run setup to install base packages. Run setup again to install X packages. There is no need to make this a two step process. Just install everything in one go. cgf -- 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/
persistent DISPLAY variable
I have been using Cygwin XFree for several years now and it has worked great. I mainly use it on Windows using XWin -ac -query 100.100.100.100 or similar to connect via XDMCP. This has been working great. I am quite experienced in X and Unix and know many of the X config files. At least I thought I did! Lately, my hostname seems to have been changed here at work and my PC now has a new hostname than it has had for the past few years. Consequently, I am unable to make XWin connect as it used to. I get an Unable to open display oldhostname:0.0 message. My problem is that for the life of me I can not see where it could be getting oldhostname from. I have grepped every file I can think of under the Cygwin installation - in my home directory and all over and I can not find this name anywhere. I searched the Windows registry and do not see it. I do not see it set in Windows variables or Cygwin variables. I have repeatedly checked the DISPLAY variable and it is either not defined at all or I set it manually. If I define it manually in Cygwin before invoking XWin, XWin *still* tries to open a display at oldhostname:0.0, not newhostname:0.0. I've looked in files in Cygwin's /etc directory and can't find any reference to oldhostname. As I recall, did XWin previously automagically set the DISPLAY variable? I just have an icon on my XP destop that has the properties Xwin -ac -query machineA. In XP there is no DISPLAY variable set. I do not see where XWin used to get the DISPLAY variable from. Is there a config file I am forgetting about? I am not using startx.bat or starxwin.bat or anything else. Just a direct invocation of Xwin.exe. But somehow Xwin.exe seems to be trying to open a DISPLAY at oldhostname:0.0 rather than newhostname:0.0 no matter what I do. Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- 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: persistent DISPLAY variable
Where would it do that? How can I find out if the queried host is at fault? My Windows COMPUTERNAME is newhost. I have discovered that some queried hosts work fine, others that I try to connect to are doing this oldhostname thing. Maybe the Unix admins have XDMCP on the queried hosts screwed up and it is forcing the DISPLAY variable to be something incorrect. I don't think it is a problem on my side now. I also can't swear that oldhostname is in fact an old host name for my PC. I can't ping oldhost from any Unix box - I don't know where that name is coming from. does your queried host explicitely set your display to your oldhostname reid -- 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/ -- 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: persistent DISPLAY variable
Bob B wrote: Where would it do that? How can I find out if the queried host is at fault? My Windows COMPUTERNAME is newhost. I have discovered that some queried hosts work fine, others that I try to connect to are doing this oldhostname thing. Maybe the Unix admins have XDMCP on the queried hosts screwed up and it is forcing the DISPLAY variable to be something incorrect. I don't think it is a problem on my side now. I also can't swear that oldhostname is in fact an old host name for my PC. I can't ping oldhost from any Unix box - I don't know where that name is coming from. I wonder if the queried hosts are doing some sort of reverse DNS lookup, and finding that your newhostname doesn't match the DNS records. -- 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: persistent DISPLAY variable
I can ping my PC via new hostname from the queried hosts that I can't Xwin to. I can't ping oldhostname from anywhere on our network. Bob B wrote: Where would it do that? How can I find out if the queried host is at fault? My Windows COMPUTERNAME is newhost. I have discovered that some queried hosts work fine, others that I try to connect to are doing this oldhostname thing. Maybe the Unix admins have XDMCP on the queried hosts screwed up and it is forcing the DISPLAY variable to be something incorrect. I don't think it is a problem on my side now. I also can't swear that oldhostname is in fact an old host name for my PC. I can't ping oldhost from any Unix box - I don't know where that name is coming from. I wonder if the queried hosts are doing some sort of reverse DNS lookup, and finding that your newhostname doesn't match the DNS records. -- 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/ -- 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: persistent DISPLAY variable
I wonder if the queried hosts are doing some sort of reverse DNS lookup, and finding that your newhostname doesn't match the DNS records. I can ping my PC via new hostname from the queried hosts that I can't Xwin to. I can't ping oldhostname from anywhere on our network. Don't ping. Instead, at your local machine, do $ hostname Is this what it should be, i.e., newhostname? $ ipconfig Does this return the IP address that it should? $ nslookup newhostname Does this match the IP address allocated to your machine? $ nslookup current-ip-address Does this match newhostname? Repeat for oldhostname as appropriate. -- 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: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4) - results
John Ormerod wrote: Reid I did as you requested - see below. BTW, there is a delay of 3-4 seconds for cmds like 'ps -ef'. Is this normal? (Thinkpad T41 with 2Gb RAM) Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat. I did this from cmd prompt. It appeared to be stuck for what seemed a long time - though maybe it was actually between 30-60 secs. Then the prompt came alive and resized itself. If you are seeing delays of 30-60 seconds just starting cygwin, I would start with trying to figure that out before moving on the the problems with X. Your unresponsive X server may be stuck on whatever is causing cygwin to delay starting up. I don't understand what you mean the prompt came alive and resized itslef. The cygwin shell shouldn't be resizing itself when you just open it up. Perhaps try asking about this on the main cygwin list. Cary -- 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/
