cygwin1-20020701.dll from 1613 EDT still doesn't work with xterm

Harold L Hunt huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Jul 1 13:51:00 GMT 2002


Chris,

Sorry, I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off this last
week trying to get the car repaired for a 1200 mile trip this weekend and all
the things that go along with that... I forgot that you sent me information on
how to do an strace.

Here is the strace:

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/xterm-strace.out.bz2

>From the first lines of the file, maybe this has something to do with the fact
that I do not have permission to create new LOCAL_MACHINE registry keys?

Harold


Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:15:18PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote:
> >Huh... the subject says it all.
> >
> >Same error as before:
> >
> >setuid failed: Permission denied
> >
> >You know, xterm is calling perror ("setuid failed")... so perror must know the
> >last errno... ah, I don't know what else to say...
> 
> Since I can't get any actual debugging information, I guess you can
> say "Cygwin 1.3.12-1 still doesn't work with xterm" very soon.
> 
> cgf
> 





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