Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Please look at my message about your installation being out of date.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

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
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

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
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wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Please look at my message about your installation being out of date.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.

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread tulitanssi
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

Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
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

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
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

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
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

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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.

2004-03-25 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
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.

2004-03-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
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

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
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

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
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

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
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