Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

[Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced in one way or
> another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs.
> Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By observing which files
> were written where, and as a consequence  setting up links using
>     ln -s /dev/null /tmp/Xwin.log
>     ln -s /dev/null /var/run/utmp
> it really seemed that I had addressed all problems: in repeated uses,
> nothing new was written to the stick at all. I then burned a CD, but
> disappointingly XWin "dies" as soon as it is started. That is, I start the
> process with bash, and then try
>     XWin -multiwindow &
> which I would normally follow with
>     rxvt -display localhost:0.0 -e bash
> but XWin does not persist. (Sorry: I don't know how to express what happens
> other than to say it "dies" immediately.)
> This is VERY disappointing. Any clues to what else I might try?
>
What is your display variable set to?  Do you have a /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
file on your memory stick?  That might be the issue.

> By the way, in mounting the portable version, I have already established
> that the directory /cygdrive/c/tmp/ must exist, so I suppose I could try
>     ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp/XWin.log /tmp/XWin.log
> before burning to CD. (I've already made 5 coasters. At this rate I'll be
> able to floor the bathroom.)
> Thanks.
> Fergus
>

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