Re: problems with running Gnome applications
Christopher Faylor wrote: That said, however, we don't provide support for cygwinports. You downloaded that from another site and there is another mailing list devoted to it. The fact that it has the word cygwin in it doesn't mean that many people here are familiar with it. Well, my problem with Bluefish was solved by installing cygwin-server, which happens to be part of the official cygwin distribution. Thank you for the directions, anyway. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
problems with running Gnome applications
hi everybody. I'd like to have a clue on how can get Gnome and Gtk applications work on cygwin. It would be cool to have a clean and as complete as possible tutorial/wiki with infos about installing Gnome and applicationso n cygwin and make them work. I got many problems with gconfd (errors like this: No database available to save your configuration: Unable to store a value at key '/apps/evince/sidebar_size', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put ORBIIOPIPv4=1 in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) etcetera. I have Win 2003 server and latest Cygwin/Cygwin ports installation. Thanks, Alessandro -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: problems with running Gnome applications
Dave Korn wrote: This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if you had sent your cygcheck output as an attachment, like it says at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ! that is what i was talking about, a simple and clean tutorial that shows what needs to be done for setting a working cygwin + gnome2 environment without having to read hundreds of hard-to-find FAQ/Docs... i can't say I have much spare time to do that. That's also one of the puroposes of this ng, I think. Thanks for the healp anyway, Alessandro -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Gnome Ports
perhaps this isn't the right NG/ML. But... the GTK/Gnome/XFCE contribution ports to the CygWin X do not appear to be very publicized/documented/supported. I'd like to have more clarity about where packages are stored (i.e. the URLs tio be added in CygWin setup.exe), how to install them, which packages need to be installed to make what, and why I got some bugs/errors, I mean, gconfd seems to have problems and it writes lots of errors in the Windows Event Log like this: Error setting value for `/apps/gtranslator/informations/last_run_on': Unable to store a value at key '/apps/gtranslator/informations/last_run_on', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put ORBIIOPIPv4=1 in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf. Thanks to anybady who will help
Re: cygGNOME2
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:22:42PM +0200, Alessandro Lendaro wrote: I can't make GNOME2 work on cygwin. I installed the packages found at cygnom2.sourceforge.net/install but I don't knowh which commands must be issued to start a GNOME2 session. When I try to launch apps like Gaim or Bluefish I get a win32 error saying the app is unable to locate the cygfontconfig-1.dll which is not installed in my cygwin folder. Is somebody able to give me a clue? Why are you asking about this here rather than using the resources at the web site where you downloaded the package? because I didn' t find any resources for my problems in that site.
Re: cygGNOME2
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:28:54PM +0200, Alessandro Lendaro wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Why are you asking about this here rather than using the resources at the web site where you downloaded the package? because I didn' t find any resources for my problems in that site. Then you really didn't look too hard. Yeah, probably. I have to work so I don't have so much time to search for pages that are not in evidence. + I 'm not english speaking, so searching for me it's a bit more difficult. If you find that the solution to my problems is in those sites' pages, then why you don't post a link? That could be helpful.
cygGNOME2
I can't make GNOME2 work on cygwin. I installed the packages found at cygnom2.sourceforge.net/install but I don't knowh which commands must be issued to start a GNOME2 session. When I try to launch apps like Gaim or Bluefish I get a win32 error saying the app is unable to locate the cygfontconfig-1.dll which is not installed in my cygwin folder. Is somebody able to give me a clue?
cygGNOME2
I can't make GNOME2 work on cygwin. I installed the packages found at cygnom2.sourceforge.net/install but I don't knowh which commands must be issued to start a GNOME2 session. When I try to launch apps like Gaim or Bluefish I get a win32 error saying the app is unable to locate the cygfontconfig-1.dll which is not installed in my cygwin folder. Is somebody able to give me a clue?
[newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2
I'm tryin' to run GNOME2 on cygwin-X on W2000 Server. The cygwin - dll is the latest available. But I get a runtime error sayin' it's impossible to find the cygfontconfig-1.dll I've checked and it seems I'm missing that file, though I did installed X11 following step-by-step the instructions in the CygWin-X user guide. Plus, anyone has a good tutorial on how ti install and get GNOME 2 working on cygwin-X ? I must search the ml- archives...? Thanx to everyone, especially those who made cygwin a reality
[newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2]
I'm tryin' to run GNOME2 on cygwin-X on W2000 Server. The cygwin - dll is the latest available. But I get a runtime error sayin' it's impossible to find the cygfontconfig-1.dll I've checked and it seems I'm missing that file, though I did installed X11 following step-by-step the instructions in the CygWin-X user guide. Plus, anyone has a good tutorial on how ti install and get GNOME 2 working on cygwin-X ? I must search the ml- archives...? Thanx to everyone, especially those who made cygwin a reality
Re: [newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2]
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Have you tried http://cygnome.sourceforge.net? Yes, but it only gives information on the GNOME 1.4 installation/execution
Re: [newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2]
Many thanks Alexander, but you apper to not acknowledge my problem. Asid from the font dll I'm missing, I'd like to have a tutorial on how to install GNOME2 (via cygwin setup.ex or other way) but there's nothing alike on the sites you mentioned. Bye. Alexander Gottwald wrote: They have a link to http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/
