Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

[Harold L Hunt II]

Fergus,

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced in one way or
> another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs.
> Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By observing which files
> were written where, and as a consequence  setting up links using
>     ln -s /dev/null /tmp/Xwin.log
>     ln -s /dev/null /var/run/utmp
> it really seemed that I had addressed all problems: in repeated uses,
> nothing new was written to the stick at all. I then burned a CD, but
> disappointingly XWin "dies" as soon as it is started.

Look in /tmp and /var/run on your memory stick.  There is likely a file 
created for the symlink.  You can't create this file on your CD, so this 
fails, right?  Is that the problem?

Harold