On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:10:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:50:28AM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: >>[Please be careful to only reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am only sending >>this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the Cygwin folks know what is going on.] >> >>Non-xterm clients work fine. xterm does not work. >> >>The base problem here is that xterm calls getuid () to find out what the >>current process's user id is. Then it later calls setuid (), passing the same >>value that was returned by getuid (). For some reason, regardless of whether >>you have run 'mkpasswd -d -u user_name >> /etc/passwd', the call to setuid () >>fails with Permission Denied. >> >>This is not something that the Cygwin/XFree86 folks changed, rather it was >>something that was changed in Cygwin proper (think cygwin1.dll). From our >>perspective, and probably from the perspective of the Cygwin developers, >>cygwin1.dll is broken when Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't work right. >> >>Thus, I'm going to guess that the Cygwin folks are working on this and that >>you need to start testing the latest cygwin1.dll snapshots to help them, and >>us, figure out when the problem is fixed. I've got a machine now that has the >>same problem so I will be testing snapshots as well, once a compile job finishes. >> >>Here is some information on installing a snapshot release of cygwin1.dll: >>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00383.html > >Thanks for *trying* a snapshot, Harold, and reporting on your experiences. > >I guess we'll keep plugging at this. My time is very limited but I'll >try to debug this X problem as soon as I have a chance. > >Until then if someone could 1) Try the very latest snapshot (the >2002-06-26 snapshot changed several times yesterday) and 2) post an >strace from a failing xterm. It would help enormously.
FWIW, I can't duplicate this failure either with 1.3.11 or with the current snapshot. However, there were changes in the current snapshot which may fix the problem. I hope someone will be brave enough to try one. cgf Snapshot installation instructions: To install a snapshot: 1) Download the latest cygwin-20020???.dll.bz2 file from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ . 2) bunzip2 cygwin-20020???.dll.bz2 3) Stop any running cygwin applications (sshd, inetd, bash, apache, etc.). 4) copy c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll.saf 5) copy cygwin-2002????.dll c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Obviously, you have to replace the 'c:\cygwin\bin' with the ms-dos path name of your /bin directory. You also *must* use Windows tools (e.g., "copy" or GUI "drag and drop") to copy the DLL to its new home since you can't easily overwrite a busy DLL.