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Re: 1.5.12: using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work (fwd)
- From: Gil Benkoe <gil at bioinf dot uni-leipzig dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:30:33 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: 1.5.12: using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work (fwd)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: gil at bioinf dot uni-leipzig dot de
Hi,
I can only use cygwin/X as an administrator. (see below)Now I saw that
all the files in /usr/X11R6/bin are only executable for members of the
group "Users " . But when I look into /etc/passwd I see that no one is
member of "Users" just of "None" (513) .I suspect that this is due to
having turned off the "Server" service in XP. Can anyone confirm this?
And suggest how to correct this and make x work without reinstalling
Cygwin? (l already instilled and compiled a lot there, or Can I reinstall
Cygwin without loosing all the programs?)
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:46:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Gil Benkoe <gil@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: munk@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: 1.5.12: using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work
I have the problem described below, and made /tmp writable and readable and
executable for all but I still have this problem. Please advise. I also don't
understand how to check inet .
thanks in advance,
Gil
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tobias Munk wrote:
Using cygwin/x administrator works fine, but when I try to start it as
user, I get an error message - the log file XWin.log is attached at the
end of this mail.
There is a similar mail concerning this issue in the archive, which
was posted a year ago, but seemingly no one posted a solution. Does
anyone
gather experiences with this in the meantime?
thanks,
Tobias
XWin.log:
-----------------------
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.1.0-5
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
already running
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
It should at least try inet too.
You can allow other users to write to /tmp/.X11-unix, or have a /tmp directory
for
every user where the user can create files at will.
bye
ago
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