Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7
Mike Ayers
mike_ayers@tvworks.com
Thu Feb 4 22:06:00 GMT 2010
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:44 AM
> > 1. Added a line in /etc/profile, just before the "chmod 1777 /tmp"
> line:
> > mount -f "$USERPROFILE/Local Settings/Temp" /tmp
I think it would be better to find the actual /tmp directory and change the Windows permissions to give "Full Control" to "Everyone". This should make the problem
> >
> > 2. Changed the XWin Server icon so instead of just startxwin.exe, it
> says:
> > ... "startxwin.exe -- -logfile ~/XWin.log"
> > (Don't take out the beginning of the command that runs startxwin
> > through bash, or the /etc/profile won't get run. The quotes are
> > needed because this is the argument to bash's -c option.)
This isn't bad at all. An alternative is to change the permissions on /var/log as above, if you don't mind letting all your users see, and be able to delete or modify, all the cygwin logfiles, but I don't see it as any better.
HTH,
Mike
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