Login without password using rsh / rlogin

Hello all, Could you help me with the next problem I'm facing. I use Cygwin within our company to automate some tasks on a Windows server. Thefor I installed inetutils and use rlogind and rshd to login without password. On Unix servers the functionality of logging in without password works, but I

Re: Login without password using rsh / rlogin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Albert van der Velde wrote: Could you help me with the next problem I'm facing. I use Cygwin within our company to automate some tasks on a Windows server. Thefor I installed inetutils and use rlogind and rshd to login without password. On Unix

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xtrans-1.2.2-2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xtrans-1.2.2-2 I added a patch to silence the bogus warning Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root from the X servers, once they are rebuilt. Yaakov Cygwin/X

Packaging library only packages with latest cygport

Hi Yaakov I'm in the process of packaging Xaw3D. Your latest patch to xorg-xf-files works by the way. I have a question regarding packaging library only packages like for example your libXmu package. The setup hint file contains the following lines: category: _source sdesc: X.Org miscellaneous

Re: startx is failing in X11R7.4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 bali asur wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock Stale lock? Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)

I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found. Please see the logs below. IN0335-01[48]+ cd /tmp IN0335-01[49]+ ls XWin.log IN0335-01[50]+ ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwt+ 2 asura mkgroup-l-d0 Nov 13 15:15 . drwxrwx---+ 12 asura mkgroup-l-d0 Nov 13 13:01 .. -rw-r--r--

Re: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)

bali asur wrote: I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found. IN0335-01[51]+ startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520 xauth: unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520, use /home/pom o/.serverauth.2520-n xauth:

Re: xauth misses security extension

I am having a similar issue. My XWin.log file has this: -- Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.5.3.0 (10503000) Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line:

xauth misses security extension

Hi all, I am no longer able to use xauth. It misses the security extension within XWin. Has this been removed on purpose and would you please explain why? best regards, matthias -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Fwd: Xwindows won't start

Hello! I just updated cygwin using setup.exe, and now I can't start XWindows. When I try, I get a pop-up that says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.5.3.0 Contact:

Re: xauth misses security extension

Morche Matthias wrote: Hi all, I am no longer able to use xauth. It misses the security extension within XWin. Has this been removed on purpose and would you please explain why? Xorg 7.4 includes XACE, which provides a superset of Xsecurity/APPGROUP, which are disabled by default. Can you

Broken upgrade, startxwin.bat gone?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 can anyone tell me where to get the startxwin batch file now that everything has been moved around? Thanks, Evan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJHEbYpxCQXwV2bJARAjjyAJ9MOQma/D5XZLt5rhMZ2V/UuGZF3ACaAsS6

Fixing problems with new X11

I've got two questions about the new X11 package that got installed when I ran setup to update my packages today. First, it looks like all of the apps moves from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. None of my windows start menu or desktop shortcuts got changed. Is there an automatic way to update them

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chuck wrote: Second, I want to get rid of the toolbar/menu at the top of every xterm. What config file change to I need to make to get rid of it permanently. I don't want to have to specify +tb every time I run an xterm. I tried adding xterm*toolbar: false to my

xhost command not found

Hi folks, I don't speak x-windows, so if I say something spectacularly stupid, well.. enjoy the laugh :-) I've been using Cygwin x-windows for a couple of years now. Yesterday, I was having some problems, so I decided to run the cygwin setup and see if there was anything new for the

Re: Broken upgrade, startxwin.bat gone?

Does your boss think that closed source upgrades never break anything? I seem to recall a lot of stuff stopped working for folks when they upgraded from Win XP to Vista. Evan Carew wrote: Thanks Marco. I got that sinking feeling when the scripts disappeared from /usr/X11/bin. Particularly as

Re: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)

Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk writes: Can you try launching the server via xinit instead of startx ? Your problem seems to be with xauth writing to a file. Perhaps you could run something like xauth -v add :0 . `mcookie` and try to work out why it can't write to the file it

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chuck wrote: Second, I want to get rid of the toolbar/menu at the top of every xterm. What config file change to I need to make to get rid of it permanently. I don't want to have to specify +tb every time I run an xterm. I tried adding

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

Chuck wrote: I've got two questions about the new X11 package that got installed when I ran setup to update my packages today. First, it looks like all of the apps moves from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. None of my windows start menu or desktop shortcuts got changed. Is there an automatic

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

Jon TURNEY wrote: Can you check if you have the xkbcomp package installed (the upgrade should have done this automatically), and if xkbcomp is on your path and is runnable? Obviously, it is installed (see attch.) in /usr/bin, and, for example, $ xkbcomp.exe -help Usage: xkbcomp [options]

excuse this test

excuse this test, it *should* get rejected -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

Jon TURNEY wrote: So near but so far: try xterm*toolBar: false Worked perfectly. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Upgrade broke Openbox

The upgrade yesterday did bad things to Openbox. See this screenshot for reference: http://w3.gwis.com/~slomojoe/images/openboxscreenshot.jpg The pager (the black rectangle at the bottom of the image) and the window decorations are black though the theme is configured to display light blue (see

Re: excuse this test

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: excuse this test, it *should* get rejected The cygwin lists are public, anyone can post to them even if not subscribed. This wasn't a useful test to see if your unsubscribe worked. ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: xhost command not found

Harry Zisko wrote: I did a search on the 'cygwin' directory (and it's sub-directories) for a file name of 'xhost', and nothing was found. Should I have an 'xhost' file somewhere? Or is 'xhost' included in some other file? Or do I need to configure a path? Or use some command other than

Re: excuse this test

Matt Wozniski wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: excuse this test, it *should* get rejected The cygwin lists are public, anyone can post to them even if not subscribed. This wasn't a useful test to see if your unsubscribe worked. Indeed! There is also no reason

Re: Upgrade broke Openbox

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !! Joseph Ess wrote: The upgrade yesterday did bad things to Openbox. See this screenshot for reference: http://w3.gwis.com/~slomojoe/images/openboxscreenshot.jpg Ouch. Any advice for getting openbox

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

James Ertle wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock As a workaround, you should be able to add -nolock to the command line used to start Xwin (in startxwin.bat, I'm guessing, in your case). Since a few people seem to have this problem, I'd like to get a resolution.

Re: Packaging library only packages with latest cygport

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I'm in the process of packaging Xaw3D. Your latest patch to xorg-xf-files works by the way. Glad to hear it. I have a question regarding packaging library only packages like for example your libXmu package. The setup

X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I just checked this into SVN, hopefully merging everything correctly and adding a couple minor patches of my own; system.XWinrc moved to /etc/X11 and XWin.log to /var/log. Could you please svn up and test 1.5.3-2? Works for me. It doesn't seem to be possible to

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

After upgrading to X11R7.4 I had the same problems with the italian layout of keyboard. After doing some strace-ing on the X server and searching in the mailing list I solve my problems doing a rebaseall (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00019.html). Hope this helps. Ciao,

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Sadly, I have no theory about how this could be happening, except perhaps it could be related to 'unusual' permissions on /tmp which could somehow let you create but not rename a file (so the output of 'ls -al /tmp' might

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

Jon TURNEY wrote: Chuck wrote: I've got two questions about the new X11 package that got installed when I ran setup to update my packages today. First, it looks like all of the apps moves from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. None of my windows start menu or desktop shortcuts got changed. Is

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Works for me. It doesn't seem to be possible to build Xwin using just the stuff in the cygwin distro: Kdrive's kxv.c requires headers from videoproto. I guess this is failing to honour a configure check properly somewhere.

Re: xman port

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Lassauge wrote: Rebuilt xman package because a problem remains for /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman, as Windows is not uppercase aware xman.exe gets installed as etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman.exe instead of Xman-*.ad (you can verify in the

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

Michele Gonfiantini ha scritto: I solve my problems doing a rebaseall Good! at least, it seems, that the keyboard layout problem is solved. Thanks a lot, Angelo. --- Facesti come quei che va di notte, che porta il lume dietro e se' non giova, ma dopo se' fa le persone dotte.

Re: startx is failing in X11R7.4

I am having the same issue. I just updated Cygwin today. XWin has always worked great for me. Also I checked and made sure that there is no file /tmp/.X0-lock on my machine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Works for me. It doesn't seem to be possible to build Xwin using just the stuff in the cygwin distro: Kdrive's kxv.c requires headers from videoproto. I guess this is failing to honour a configure check properly somewhere. AFAICS that file

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

Jon TURNEY wrote: James Ertle wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock As a workaround, you should be able to add -nolock to the command line used to start Xwin (in startxwin.bat, I'm guessing, in your case). Since a few people seem to have this problem, I'd like to

Re: startx is failing in X11R7.4

Ryan Warnick wrote: I am having the same issue. I just updated Cygwin today. XWin has always worked great for me. Also I checked and made sure that there is no file /tmp/.X0-lock on my machine. Does startx -- -nolock work any better? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Ok, my archaeological investigations in this area have revealed that this locking code probably wasn't enabled in 6.8.99. I don't think it is actually giving any benefit, since we also have a native named mutex is used in the

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Actually, this seems to be more complex than I first thought. Running any of the mesa demo programs works fine locally, but causes a server segfault when I do it over ssh to a linux box Let me give you some background.

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:12:42PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a linux box to experiment with... :-( There's always http://www.virtualbox.org/ if you want to get a virtual linux system. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Cygwin X11 installation has changed lately?

Hi group, When I installed Cygwin this afternoon, I was looking for xorg-x11-base under the X11 subtree, and I didn't find it there anymore. I installed everything that was under X11 anyway, and was unable to locate startXwin under c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin. Where did startxwin go? can I still

[ANNOUNCEMENT] X11R7.4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 (Resending here because it wasn't echoed at the time and obviously a lot of people haven't seen it.) Cygwin/X has been updated to X.Org X11R7.4. WHAT'S NEW IN X11R7.4? == * Each program, library, set of headers, set of fonts,

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:49:20PM -0500, Chuck wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chuck wrote: Second, I want to get rid of the toolbar/menu at the top of every xterm. What config file change to I need to make to get rid of it permanently. I don't want to have to specify

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xman-1.0.3-3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xman-1.0.3-3 This release fixes the installation of the app-defaults file and groff formatting handling, and adds man.conf support. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD:

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Hmm.. thinking about this, perhaps the best thing to do is create a new shortcut which links to startxwin.bat, so that the end-user at least has some chance of a discoverable means of launching the server which should work.