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Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:13:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account
- References: <33746.192.18.1.5.1125492394.squirrel@192.18.1.5>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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.
>
> I've checked /tmp/XWin.log but there are no discernable differences after
> initiating X on each account. But still, after running
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat from my office account, I continue to get a
> non-specific fatal error.
>
> Both accounts are set up with Administrator privileges, though it is the
> personal account from which Cygwin installed.
>
> I'd be grateful for any clue/advice that points me in the right direction
> of a solution.
Start here:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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.
HTH,
Igor
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