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Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote:



On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote:



I'm new to the list. Hi!

I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and
the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X
working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my
personal account.


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I suspect it's either a mount issue, or a permission one. Seeing the
output of "cygcheck -svr" will likely provide enough information to
decide which one. Please make sure you *attach* the output, rather
than include it in-line.


Thanks, Igor. I've had a peek at the file (attached) and I'm none the
wiser :-)



The file you attached shows a lot of information about your system that's useful for those who know where to look -- saves asking a whole bunch of "thy this -- what do you see?" questions.

According to the cygcheck output, your mounts look good (i.e., you've
installed Cygwin "for all users"). The next step is to look at
/tmp/XWin.log for the exact "fatal error" you get (you mentioned it was
"non-specific", but didn't paste the exact message in). You aren't trying
to run the two X sessions (for the office account and the home one) at the
same time, by any chance, are you?
Igor


Hi Igor,

I'm using the standard 'startxwin.bat', modified only to change %CYGWIN_ROOT% from '\cygwin' to where my newest install was placed.

The dialog simply reports the following error:

"A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit."

... followed by the usual build info and referral to /tmp/XWin.log

I'm attaching the XWin.log from both successful and unsuccessful attemps to start Cygwin/X, each with an appropriate filename suffix.

To answer your question: I never use XP's 'Switch User' option. I'm only ever using one instance of Cygwin/X at a time.

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I had an older version of Cygwin/X installed prior to the weekend (in the '\cygwin' directory) and this used to work fine on both accounts. Though, back then, neither account was password-protected. This time around, I have sshd running (perfectly) as a XP service and I've obviously decided that password might be an idea :-) so I set them up using the 'passwd' command rather than using the Windows Control Panel. On the surface, it seems to be fine but I don't know whether or not it could be contributing to my woes, so I think it might be worth a mention.

Best,
Iain.



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