Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Marco Schuler
Hello I installed Cygwin on my new machine yesterday and now I cannot start x as I am used to. A fatal error occurs. I tried to start using startxserver.bat which uses: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Here is the content of the XWin.log: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Here is the content of the XWin.log: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. Check if you can write in the dir /tmp/.X11-unix and delete

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Marco Schuler
On 8/7/07, Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Schuler schrieb: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Here is the content of the XWin.log: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. Check if you

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: On 8/7/07, Holger Krull x wrote: Please make your email Program not quote the full email adress. Why is everything mounted in textmode? Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is there any problem about this? Well, usually it is

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Marco Schuler
On 8/7/07, Holger Krull wrote: Marco Schuler schrieb: On 8/7/07, Holger Krull x wrote: Please make your email Program not quote the full email adress. Sorry about that. Gmail does not allow to configure this... Manual deleting will do ;-) Why is everything mounted in textmode?

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: Why is everything mounted in textmode? Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is there any problem about this? Well, usually it is not what cygwin does. I don't know if it does any paticular harm, but there is no reason to have / mounted

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Marco Schuler
On 8/7/07, Holger Krull wrote: Marco Schuler schrieb: [...] Where did you get your cygwin from? From the cygwin mirror in Switzerland: ftp://mirror.switch.ch But I'd say the textmode is not the problem why I cannot start X? No, but it is a hint that there is something wrong with your

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: But I'd say the textmode is not the problem why I cannot start X? No, but it is a hint that there is something wrong with your cygwin installation. Attach the output of cygcheck -c Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM -

X-Windows not starting up

2007-08-07 Thread jason allen
Hi Cygwin, Please help!! X-Windows eeps hanging. See below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ startx --help Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard

Re: x-server font setting

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL - your single line was rather long. According to Ling F. Zhang on 8/7/2007 10:12 PM: I just installed cygwin in order to run fontforge on a Windows machine (while my linux machine is down). But since I am