RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree

["Oliver S Dungey" <odungey at csc dot com>]

Openwindows is being discontinued as you rightly say. In addition CDE is
being dropped as Sun are adopting GNOME.

Oliver





Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>@sources.redhat.com on 10/08/2001
13:03:48

Sent by:  cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com


To:
cc:   "'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'"
      <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject:  RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree




> Sorry to pop in 'out of the blue', but I am a USER (read NOT
> A DEVELOPER) of Cygwin/Xfree and I have the same problems
> with 3 different Solaris boxes and 7 different W2k machines.
>
> I have the same setup on each of 7 different W2k machines:
>    Latest Cygwin binaries, latest Xfree 4.1.0 release,
>    statrup script on a network share containing:
>         XWin -screen 0 1024x768x256 -query
> $TARGET_SERVER -fp tcp/$TARGET_SERVER:7100
>
> My 3 Solaris boxes are set up in the following manner (all
> with the latest 'Sun Recommended Patch' packages applied:
>    1 - Solaris 8 (Intel)
>    1 - Solaris 8 (Sparc - Netra T 1125)
>    1 - Solaris 7 (Sparc - Netra T 1125)
>
> Like Oliver, I can log in to OpenWindows without a hitch, but
> as soon as you select CDE as your environment, as soon as the
> desktop finishes rendering,

Have you tried setting CDE as default desktop environment on the Sun
machines?

The OpenWindows will be a history in next release of Solaris.  I read that
due to several issues and incomplabilities Sun plans to discontnue
OpenWindows for good.


Suhaib


>XFree locks up forcing the "three
> finger salute" (to bring up task manager) so you can kill it.
>
> I, too, have searched every machine for multiple .DLL's and
> none have been located on any of the 7 W2k workstations.
>
> Hope this helps in some way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Randal Cobb
> Applications Architect
> Daugherty Systems, Inc.
> (770) 475-7218
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Oliver S Dungey
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:36 AM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
>
>
>
> Thanks for trying it out with Solaris on Intel:
>
> The command line I use at startup is as follows:
> XWin -screen 0 1600 1200 -fp tcp/dolphin:1234 -query dolphin
>
> What am I running?:
> I am using the latest Cygwin binaries as installed over the
> internet on a clean install. I am using the last Xfree
> release 4.1.0 having followed the installation instructions
> to the letter. I have checked for multiple cygwin DLL's and
> to my horror I found one installed with Iona's Orbix product.
> I removed this file but the problems persist. I have cleanly
> installed on about 5 different NT boxes and they all suffer
> the same problems. I can logon with any account using
> OpenWindows with no problems at all.
>
> Further findings:
> I have now found another interesting thing: I can now logon
> with CDE with my user account and everything works OK (apart
> from the periodic crashes - could have been the old cygwin
> dll) but if I logon with any other user accounts XWin
> terminates just as the login is completing.
>
> What next?:
> You are quite correct that the Solaris installation would
> appear to be the chief suspect (SPARC version, not Intel)
> although Exceed isn't having any problems. It is a pretty
> standard install but there are obviously lots of variables. I
> will find time to compile a debug version and run it through
> GDB to try and get you some useful information.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
>
>
> "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu> on 09/08/2001 17:07:05
>
> To:   Oliver S Dungey/FSG/CSC@CSC, "cygx" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
>
>
> Oliver,
>
> Well, I downloaded Solaris 8.0 for Intel and installed it on
> one of my computers.  I created a new user and logged in via
> XDMCP.  So far, everything has worked fine; Cygwin/XFree86
> did not hang on login.  The User Registration program worked
> fine and did not cause any crashes or hangs.  I have clicked
> the Options menu in dtterm with no adverse effect.
>
> > I don't really know who's bugs these are but they should not really
> > cause a crash in Xfree, maybe some warnings but not a full on crash.
>
> The answer to that question is simple: they are your bugs.
> You are the only one that has encountered them, so you own
> them.  I don't know that these are bugs, rather, there is
> likely something else going on with your systems. For
> example, you might have more than one copy of cygwin1.dll on
> your system, you may have mixed and matched the
> Cygwin/XFree86 binaries, or you may have a really strange
> Solaris configuration.  In any case, we can't help you until
> you figure out what is going on.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Harold
>
>
>
>
>