Unable to start Xterm
Alexander Gottwald
alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed May 26 16:06:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Senthil Ramamurthy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My cygwin.bat reads
>
> @echo off
>
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>
> bash --login -i /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
>
> I'm a newbie and I have very little idea on what is going on. My X
> window output is
>
> Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that
> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group
> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
> rm: cannot unlink `/tmp/.X11-unix/X0': Permission denied
> rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/.X11-unix': Permission denied
Is the computer used by other users too?
please try in bash window:
mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l > /etc/group
does it work now?
else do in bash window and send the output:
id
ls -ld /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix
mount
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open log file "/tmp/XWin.log"
The logfile you sent is not from your session. You do not have write
access to /tmp so the old logfile was not overwritten.
bye
ago
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