Failed to write cache during install

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Gitschlag
I recently set up Cygwin and XWin on my XP system, but need help with error messages that occured during post-install scripts. My setup log file shows: 2010/08/26 10:17:04 running: F:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/font-adobe-dpi75.sh 2010/08/26 10:17:18 abnormal

Unable to start XWin with --nolock

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Gitschlag
I am having trouble starting XWin on my system. It complains about being unable to read lock the file -- okay, so it resides on a FAT32 drive, no big.  Just add --nolock to my command line and move on. But it doesn't work.  But it does.  But doesn't. I AM able to run XWin from inside cygwin's