Also almost there..

[Hans Göebel]

L.S.
 
I have a problem that looks a bit like the one 
reported recently by John Turner; however, the solution outlined for him does 
not work for me.
This is what I did:
- installed Cygwin 1.1.4 on my machine (PIII, TNT2 
video card). This was the first time I used Cygwin, so no chance for B20.1 or 
other versions.
- downloaded all xfree86-4.0-* tar.bz2 
files
- untarred into toplevel cygwin dir, so 
installation is under /usr/X11R6
- added /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib in front 
of the path in /etc/profile; the path is OK according to bash.
- entered "startxwin.bat" at the bash prompt.(XWin 
-screen 8 1024x768x16 has the same effect)
 
A few DOS boxes with xwin, xterm etc. flash over 
the screen, then the screen becomes black, with just a small hour-glass shaped 
cursor, which can be moved around. For the rest, the machine is completely 
frozen, only the reset button gets it alive again.
Two times there was a "lost cluster" on the disk 
after reboot that contained a listing of messages just as John reported, apart 
that the text stops after "error opening security policy file 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy".
I did a few experiments to see what could be 
happening:
- I did rebuild all font .dir files as recommended 
to John, but this does not help.
- it looks like the Xserver is running, trying to 
point an xterm from a linux box did not give any errors on the linux side, only 
nothing was visible at the windws side!
- the xterm on the cygwin/windows machine does work 
with the MIX Xserver, only it reports that sh is not available, but I do not 
think this could be the problem.
 
Any suggestions how to get this to work, or at 
least to get some more info (logfiles etc) about what is going wrong? Any 
configuration files that should be changed?
 
Thanks already for any help,
 
Regards,
 
Hans Göebel
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