On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:24:55PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: >Chris, > >> Does the log file contain any useful information, by any chance? > >None. Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't get an error, only xterm does. > >> Do you think you could do a >> >> strace -ox:\somewhere\strace.out sh startxwin.sh , bzip2 strace.out, >> and send it to me? > >I'll try to tomorrow. > >>Just to be clear, this is just as simple as running the xserver and >>opening up an xterm, right? Unfortunately, that works fine for me >>under 1.3.11 and the snapshot. I am running on Windows XP. Don't know >>why that would make a difference, though. > >This problem doesn't happen on my home Windows 2000 machine, nor does >it happen on my NT Workstation 4.0 machine at work (though I haven't >upgraded cygwin1.dll in a week or more). The problem only happens on a >Windows 2000 machine that I use at work (which I just installed Cygwin >on two days ago). Both machines at work are members of a *domain* >while my home machine is not in a domain. Also, I can only logon to >both machines at work as a domain user, as I have no local account and >I don't have administrator priveleges to create one (and it'd blow my >cover if I told them I needed a local account for debugging >Cygwin/XFree86 :)
Hmm. If you do a: mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin does the problem go away, perchance? I would expect it to. cgf