Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

[Iain Campbell]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote:
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>>>>I'm new to the list. Hi!
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>>>>I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and
>>>>the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X
>>>>working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my
>>>>personal account.
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>>>Start here:
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>>>>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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>>>I suspect it's either a mount issue, or a permission one.  Seeing the
>>>output of "cygcheck -svr" will likely provide enough information to
>>>decide which one.  Please make sure you *attach* the output, rather
>>>than include it in-line.
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>>Thanks, Igor. I've had a peek at the file (attached) and I'm none the
>>wiser :-)
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>The file you attached shows a lot of information about your system that's
>useful for those who know where to look -- saves asking a whole bunch of
>"thy this -- what do you see?" questions.
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>According to the cygcheck output, your mounts look good (i.e., you've
>installed Cygwin "for all users").  The next step is to look at
>/tmp/XWin.log for the exact "fatal error" you get (you mentioned it was
>"non-specific", but didn't paste the exact message in).  You aren't trying
>to run the two X sessions (for the office account and the home one) at the
>same time, by any chance, are you?
>	Igor
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Hi Igor,

I'm using the standard 'startxwin.bat', modified only to change 
%CYGWIN_ROOT% from '\cygwin' to where my newest install was placed.

The dialog simply reports the following error:

    "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit."

... followed by the usual build info and referral to /tmp/XWin.log

I'm attaching the XWin.log from both successful and unsuccessful attemps 
to start Cygwin/X, each with an appropriate filename suffix.

To answer your question: I never use XP's 'Switch User' option. I'm only 
ever using one instance of Cygwin/X at a time.

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I had an older version of Cygwin/X 
installed prior to the weekend (in the '\cygwin' directory) and this 
used to work fine on both accounts. Though, back then, neither account 
was password-protected. This time around, I have sshd running 
(perfectly) as a XP service and I've obviously decided that password 
might be an idea :-) so I set them up using the 'passwd' command rather 
than using the Windows Control Panel. On the surface, it seems to be 
fine but I don't know whether or not it could be contributing to my 
woes, so I think it might be worth a mention.

Best,
Iain.



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