Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Please look at my message about your installation being out of date. Harold I had previously tried a setup.exe 'reinstall' and also uninstalling xserv and installing it from the easynet.be mirror, neither worked. However, last night I tried deleting everything cygwin - not as easy as it sounds as there are some 'undeletable' link files - and reinstalling it all from uni-erlangen.de. This worked. So I must conclude that mirror.ac.uk at least, and possibly easynet.be, are poor mirror choices :-( It would be rather nice if setup had a way of verifying that the packages it loads are self-consistent. Regards, Ruth
RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Subject: RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc. From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Dr.D.J.Picton' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:39:42 + Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: The xserver is called XWin.exe. Maybe X is a custom script that starts the xserver with xdmcp parameters. The first lines of the log should contain the commandline parameters. Unfortunately you stripped them It seems to me that we are chasing red herrings here. /usr/X11R6/X is just a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/Xwin.exe - they are one and the same! I suspect that Ruth's problem is not quite the same as mine. My X server didn't crash; it just failed to find the application default files and fell back on a default for the keyboard map, so that when I typed '#' on my UK keyboard I got '\'. Anyway, the symbolic links fixed the problems. If the same symbolic links don't fix Ruth's problem, she probably needs to look elsewhere. Maybe the first thing to do is to reinstall the X11 packages.
Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Please look at my message about your installation being out of date. Harold I had previously tried a setup.exe 'reinstall' and also uninstalling xserv and installing it from the easynet.be mirror, neither worked. However, last night I tried deleting everything cygwin - not as easy as it sounds as there are some 'undeletable' link files - and reinstalling it all from uni-erlangen.de. This worked. So I must conclude that mirror.ac.uk at least, and possibly easynet.be, are poor mirror choices :-( Both of those mirrors look to be up to date to me. It would be rather nice if setup had a way of verifying that the packages it loads are self-consistent. No, I think your 'undeletable' link files is a clue... there had to be something messed up with your installation. It probably won't happen again since you deleted and reinstalled. Harold
Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Hi, I've had similar problems. I noticed that the problems existed due to lack of permissions. When I set permissions (on the Windows side) as Full Control to Everyone, the deletion of old installation and the re-installation of new version worked. It seems that permissions of the C:\cygwin directory (the install directory) should be set as Full Control to Everyone. Otherwise it is easy to get problems on re-installation. Cheers, Tuli .. MTV3 Laajakaista - Hauskemman elämän puolesta. http://www.mtv3.fi/liittyma/hankinta/laajakaista/
Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
From: Dr.D.J.Picton dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:22:01 + (GMT) Subject: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc. Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Reply-to: Dr.D.J.Picton dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced a '\'). Then I realized that the server now expects to find all the config files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Installing a few symlinks fixed all the problems: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11 . Sorry - spot the deliberate mistake! That should have been cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11/* .
RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Would the following issue: Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60. Be why my X server doesn't start up any more? I get the following Xwin.log after running X :0 from the cygwin shell: (EE) Unable to locate/open config file InitOutput - Error reading config file winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1600 dwHeight: 1200 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Not changing video mode winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 6400 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 6400 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1600 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. 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 (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = xfree86 Model = pc105 Layout = gb Variant = (null) Options = (null) winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned XDM: too many retransmissions winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard is not enabled, returning. winProcQueryTree - Clipboard is not enabled, returning. winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1 winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Restore returned: OsVendorReset - Hello winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: XDM: too many retransmissions There is a problem with the xdmcp server. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Ago wrote: There is a problem with the xdmcp server. As I said, I ran the command as X :0, which IIRC should not require an xdmcp server. Even if it did, I have another machine which can log in to the same server fine. Regards, Ruth
RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Ago wrote: There is a problem with the xdmcp server. As I said, I ran the command as X :0, which IIRC should not require an xdmcp server. Even if it did, I have another machine which can log in to the same server fine. The xserver is called XWin.exe. Maybe X is a custom script that starts the xserver with xdmcp parameters. The first lines of the log should contain the commandline parameters. Unfortunately you stripped them bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Would the following issue: Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60. Be why my X server doesn't start up any more? Does not appear to be. In addition to what Alexander said, if the XWin.log you sent was complete, then you are running an old version of the XFree86-xserv package since there is no version or command line information printed at the top of the file. Please run 'cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv' and report your results. If you think you have been updating regularly, then you may be pointing to a stale mirror and you need to reselect a different mirror from the mirror list. Note: If you selected a mirror that eventually became stale, it would be dropped from the downloaded mirror list, but it would still be your default mirror and would be added to the mirror list as a user entry. This isn't quite the way it should be (a mirror from the list being removed from the list should be distinct from a user entry) handled but that is the way it will continue to be until someone puts forth the effort on setup.exe. Harold
Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Dr.D.J.Picton wrote: Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60. I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced a '\'). Then I realized that the server now expects to find all the config files under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Installing a few symlinks fixed all the problems: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11; ln -s /etc/X11 . Now everything works properly. However, it seems to me that something is wrong with the package installation scripts which should either install all the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, or create the relevant symlinks in this directory. What are you talking about? The postinstall script for the lib package does exactly what you did... your installation must have barfed for some reason because those symlinks have been created by that script for months now, if not for longer than a year. Nothing has changed with that script that I know of, unless I royally broke something. Harold
RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: The xserver is called XWin.exe. Maybe X is a custom script that starts the xserver with xdmcp parameters. The first lines of the log should contain the commandline parameters. Unfortunately you stripped them Whatever X is, it is part of the cygwin install, as I have not created any programs. % which X /usr/X11R6/bin/X % I didn't strip *anything* from the file I posted. Indeed, running XWin :0 has the same behaviour and the same log file. Ruth
Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.
Please look at my message about your installation being out of date. Harold Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: The xserver is called XWin.exe. Maybe X is a custom script that starts the xserver with xdmcp parameters. The first lines of the log should contain the commandline parameters. Unfortunately you stripped them Whatever X is, it is part of the cygwin install, as I have not created any programs. % which X /usr/X11R6/bin/X % I didn't strip *anything* from the file I posted. Indeed, running XWin :0 has the same behaviour and the same log file. Ruth
