On 8/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: > Marco Schuler wrote: > > On 8/7/07, Holger Krull wrote: > >> Marco Schuler schrieb: > >>> On 8/7/07, Holger Krull <xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Why is everything mounted in textmode? > >>> Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is > >>> there any problem about this? > >> Well, usually it is not what cygwin does. I don't know if it does any > >> paticular harm, but there is no reason to have / mounted textmode. > > > > It seems as this is default from mount. man mount sais: "By default, > > mounts are in text mode" > > > The mode of the mounts created by "setup.exe" depend on what you specify > for the "Default text file type" during installation. "Unix" (i.e. binary) > is the default. Like all defaults, your best bet is to stick with them > unless you have a need for something else and understand the implications. > > If you'd prefer to change back to binary mounts now, you can either re-run > "setup.exe" and respecify your mount points as "Unix" or you can force a > remount of all mount points as binary with the following: > > mount -m >/tmp/mounts > edit '/tmp/mounts' and change all '-t's to '-b's > save your edits > chmod +x /tmp/mounts > /tmp/mounts > > You will, of course, have to run through the file-system and change any > scripts you have from text to binary (with 'd2u') for those to work for > you again. If you're not too far into your installation configuration, > you may find it easier to start to remove what you have and reinstall. >
I installed cygwin again using UNIX mounts. X works now :-) Thank you both for your help! -- Regards, Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/