Re: Cannot Start X

[Holger Krull <holger dot krull at gmx dot de>]

Marco Schuler schrieb:
> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> Here is the content of the XWin.log:
> 
> (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode
> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.

Check if you can write in the dir /tmp/.X11-unix and delete everything (use ls -la to check because the files start with a dot) 

Why is everything mounted in textmode?


> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (textmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type user (textmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
> h: on /cygdrive/h type user (textmode,noumount)
> k: on /cygdrive/k type user (textmode,noumount)
> o: on /cygdrive/o type user (textmode,noumount)
> s: on /cygdrive/s type user (textmode,noumount)
> t: on /cygdrive/t type user (textmode,noumount)
> u: on /cygdrive/u type user (textmode,noumount)
> x: on /cygdrive/x type user (textmode,noumount)


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