Problem connecting to Solaris 8 systems using Xwin

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Martin McNelis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Surely if that was the case I would be unable to connect to Solaris 2.6
>>boxes, which I can.  The keyboard mapping problem is one I've always had
>>with Cygwin as the keyboard I use is for UK and Ireland.  That has never
>>stopped me connecting to a box.  The only thing that has ever caused the
>>same problem for me before was if a Solaris box was called without
>>specifying a font server.  I've checked that the font server is running on
>>the Solaris 8 boxes but still now luck.  Is it possible that the Font server
>>for Solaris 8 has changed slightly and is no longer compatible with Cygwin?
> 
> 
> I don't think so. I've used cygwin/X to connect to Solaris 8 too and had
> no problems. If it is even crashing then there must be a bigger problem.
> 
> Have you started XWin with special parameters (eg -multiwindow, -clipboard)?
> 
> @Harold: Do you have a debug build ready. I'd like Martin to try it in 
> gdb to get a backtrace where the server crashed. 

No, I do not have a debug build ready.  I could perhaps make one, but it 
will take a bit.

Harold