On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, cfu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed cygwin-x on Windows XP Professional, and it works perfectly
> on my (administrator) account.
> Nevertheless, when any user WITHOUT administrator rights runs the script
> startxwin.bat, a fatal error occurs, and the XWin.log looks like this:
>
> > Welcome to the XWin X Server
> > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> > Release: 6.8.1.0-9
> >
> > 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 1280 h 1024
> > 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
>
> The same happens when running the .sh script from the cygwin bash shell.
>
> Can anyone give a hint, how to run the X-Server from the guest account?
> Or at least from a normal user account?
it looks like a problem with file access rights for /tmp
bye
ago
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