Re: Postinstall script error

2010-08-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 25/08/2010 03:46, noggin wrote: Here is a slice from setup.log 2010/08/23 23:47:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/fltk.sh 2010/08/23 23:48:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/libglade2.0.sh 2010/08/23 23:48:03 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

Re: Unable to start XWin with --nolock

2010-08-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/08/2010 18:18, Richard Gitschlag wrote: 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

Re: CygwinX Users Guide

2010-08-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/08/2010 01:21, noggin wrote: Tried to print the PDF version of the guide, August 19 1700h. All screenshots are displaced off the right-hand side. Change magnification and they are still displaced. Thanks for reporting this issue. This document seems to have been this way forever. I've

Re: CygwinX Users Guide

2010-08-26 Thread Nicholas C Payne
Jon, not on my time scale ! Its equivalent in 2003 was OK... I'll have to check 2005 and 2006 when I get back into the lab !! I have our graduate students build CygwinX in order to access the Cambridge Structural Database on a Fedora-Linux box. Needless to say, from Micros**t Windows...