Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

2009-10-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 08/10/2009 22:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/8/2009 5:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: But looking at PS1 to determine if you have a login shell in your ancestry doesn't work, as PS1 gets unset by non-interactive bash shells. (This is something which I have learnt today :-) So attempting to set PS1 in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

2009-10-09 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/9/2009 9:56 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 08/10/2009 22:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/8/2009 5:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: But looking at PS1 to determine if you have a login shell in your ancestry doesn't work, as PS1 gets unset by non-interactive bash shells. (This is something which I have

RE: Cygwin/X server -query fails with recent versions of Gnome GDM

2009-10-09 Thread Richard Evans
Thanks for the analysis. I did try adding root and gdm /etc/passwd at the cygwin end and the query then worked. I agree that this is a bug in GDM - I will see about posting a report there. Might be worth adding this to a FAQ in case GDM is not fixed. Richard -Original Message- From:

fc-cache: failed to write cache

2009-10-09 Thread Steven Woody
Hi, I removed cygwin1.5 on both of my two computers, one is a laptop and another is a desktop, they are all Windows XP.  I then installed cygwin 1.7 for them, the result is strange.  The laptop seems okay, but the desktop, after I tried re-install many times, still always fail when I execute

RE: fc-cache: failed to write cache

2009-10-09 Thread Steven Woody
After did some explore on my system, I found a very strange thing: the permissions on directory /etc/postinstall and all scripts contained in it are no correctly. Below is a piece of it: ... -rw-r--r-- 1 woody None 794 2008-10-28 10:31 font-sony-misc.sh.done -rw-r--r-- 1 woody None 794