Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

[Mark Hansen <meh at Winfirst dot Com>]

On 3/7/2014 11:57 AM, Mark Hansen wrote:
> I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a laptop PC.
> On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the laptop, I
> have the following problems:
> 
> When I launch a shell window, I get the following error:
> 
> Your group is currently "mkgroup". This indicates that neither your gid nor your pgsid is in /etc/group.
> 

I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin to another 64-bit Windows 7 PC, and
it did not have this problem. After the installation was finished, my user was
configured in the /etc/passwd file and did not have the "mkgroup" group. Instead,
it was set to 513 (None), which I guess is okay - at least I don't get the error
when launching a shell.

I don't think I did anything different during the installation other than just
getting a later version (I downloaded the software on 3/15/2014).

FYI

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