1.5.12: using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work (fwd)

[Gil Benkoe]

Hi,

I can only use cygwin/X as an administrator.  (see below)Now I saw that 
all the files in /usr/X11R6/bin  are only executable for members of the 
group "Users " . But when I look into /etc/passwd I see that no one is 
member of "Users" just of "None" (513)  .I suspect that this is due to 
having turned off  the "Server" service in XP. Can anyone confirm  this? 
And suggest how to correct this and make x  work without reinstalling 
Cygwin? (l already instilled and compiled a lot there, or Can  I reinstall 
Cygwin without loosing all the programs?)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:46:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Gil Benkoe <gil@bioinf.uni-leipzig.de>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: munk@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: 1.5.12: using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work

I have the problem described below, and made /tmp writable and readable and 
executable for all  but I still have this problem.  Please advise. I also don't 
understand  how to check inet .

  thanks in advance,
  Gil

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tobias Munk wrote:

> Using cygwin/x administrator works fine, but when I try to start it as
> user, I get an error message - the log file XWin.log is attached at the
> end of this mail.
> 
> There is a similar mail concerning this issue in the archive, which
> was posted a year ago, but seemingly no one posted a solution. Does 
anyone
> gather experiences with this in the meantime?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
> XWin.log:
> -----------------------
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.1.0-5
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't 
already running
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

It should at least try inet too.

You can allow other users to write to /tmp/.X11-unix, or have a /tmp directory 
for
every user where the user can create files at will.

bye
 	ago
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