Re: Problem with Solaris
Take a look at your .xsession-errors file on the solaris machine AFTER your loging fails. There is probably something wrong with your .xinitrc or .xsession files. Possibly go downt to minimal files there, and try again? But the .xsession-errors very often will give you a hint in that case. Brian --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Are you connecting to a Solaris 2.8 system? I have exactly the same problem on 2.8, but can connect to Solaris systems running 2.6 without any errors. Matthew Codd Stuart Gaunt sgaunt@softwrightTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] .co.uk cc: Sent by: Subject: Problem with Solaris cygwin-xfree-owner @cygwin.com 27/03/02 18:31 I'm trying to get cygwin/xfree working using XDMCP from Solaris (on sparc), but all I get is a black screen with an egg-timer. It works fine using XDMCP from a Linux host. Using X-Win32 on the same PC works fine to Linux AND Solaris. Under X-Win32, when I first connect I get the black egg-timer window, then almost immediately I get the CDE login prompt. Under cygwin/xfree, I get the black egg timer, but no prompt. The egg-timer follows my mouse around, so there is obviously some X stuff going on, but not quite enough. Any ideas ? Thanks Stuart __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/
XDMCP connection dog-slow (hopefully solved)
If you are using IPX, and I think you have told me so, the Novell client resets the order for the name resolution . Usually the timeout is about 1-2 minutes. Could you try to uninstall the whole novell client with IPX on a client? I think I've tracked down the problem to a ATI graphic card utility called ati2evxx.exe. As it seems, it doesn't do anything but eats a lot of system resources. After throwing it out, at least the two machines I've tried started networking with cygwin at normal speed. Anyway, thanks a lot for your help. Cheers Edi
RE: Problem with Solaris
*My* problem in this situation turned out to be that the XDMCP session from Solaris needed Solaris fonts which are not available by default on Cygwin/XFree86. I solved my problem by having my XWin use the font server on the Solaris box: XWin -from $MyPC -query $SolarisBox -fp tcp/$SolarisBox:7100 Alternatively, there are publicly-available font conversion programs which would allow you to convert the Solaris fonts into Cygwin/XFree86 fonts and install them on your PC. This is not nearly as easy as using a font server, however. -D. - David Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-367-3885 -Original Message- From: Brian Genisio [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 6:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with Solaris Take a look at your .xsession-errors file on the solaris machine AFTER your loging fails. There is probably something wrong with your .xinitrc or .xsession files. Possibly go downt to minimal files there, and try again? But the .xsession-errors very often will give you a hint in that case. Brian --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Are you connecting to a Solaris 2.8 system? I have exactly the same problem on 2.8, but can connect to Solaris systems running 2.6 without any errors. Matthew Codd Stuart Gaunt sgaunt@softwrightTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] .co.uk cc: Sent by: Subject: Problem with Solaris cygwin-xfree-owner @cygwin.com 27/03/02 18:31 I'm trying to get cygwin/xfree working using XDMCP from Solaris (on sparc), but all I get is a black screen with an egg-timer. It works fine using XDMCP from a Linux host. Using X-Win32 on the same PC works fine to Linux AND Solaris. Under X-Win32, when I first connect I get the black egg-timer window, then almost immediately I get the CDE login prompt. Under cygwin/xfree, I get the black egg timer, but no prompt. The egg-timer follows my mouse around, so there is obviously some X stuff going on, but not quite enough. Any ideas ? Thanks Stuart __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/
RE: XWin core dump
Joe, Have you done an actual file search for multiple versions of cygwin1.dll, or have you just assumed that since you only installed Cygwin once that you only have one copy of cygwin1.dll? If you've just assumed, then you need to do a file search, as lots of software comes with its own copy of cygwin1.dll. Let us know which it is, Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Bronkema Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XWin core dump Hi, I tried Cygwin/XFree for the first time today, and was unpleasantly surprised with a core dump when I tried to start the server. I'm running Windows 95 with Cygwin 1.3.10 and the 4.2.0 binaries from mirrors.rcn.net. Here's the stack dump: $ cat XWIN.EXE.stackdump Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=19E0C48A eax=82BBAE20 ebx= ecx= edx=00A4EBE8 esi=82BBA00C edi=82BBA040 ebp=00A4EC00 esp=00A4EBBC program=C:\CYGWIN\USR\X11R6\BIN\XWIN.EXE cs=0157 ds=015F es=015F fs=361F gs= ss=015F Stack trace: Frame Function Args 00A4EC00 19E0C48A (, 00C0, 4600, 82BBA00C) 017D1AC8 00021401 (, , , ) 0179E578 01786E3A (017D1AC8, 0974F18B, 2BC4E856, C483FFFC) 6029107 [main] XWin 586635 handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state (probabl y corrupted stack) I checked the FAQ. The entry for STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION suggested multiple conflicting versions of cygwin1.dll. I have only the one. Any ideas? Any additional info I could provide that would help?
Documentation updates
I updated the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ to answer the question about the font path with Solaris (Q 4.9): http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-solaris-fonts I also added a Q/A for the slowdown caused by ATI2evxx.exe (Q 6.1): http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-tasklist-programs -slow In the User's Guide I added documentation for starting multiple XDMCP sessions with different hosts: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html I gave attributions to Dr. Edward Wornar and David Dawson, so they will want to look at these updates. Harold
RE: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up
Joe, Well, it goes in now that it is useful to someone. Harold -Original Message- From: Perches, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 6:24 PM To: 'Harold Hunt' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sound makes cygwin/xfree86 lock up MessageBeep(MB_OK) works well and is I believe the right call too. Harold, you're a maintainer. Does this change go into the source tree? http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/winkeybd.c seems to show it hasn't. It may be that the cvsweb repository is stale. Thanks, Joe
Re: X connection to 127.0. ...explicit kill...
Hello, I know I'm not the only one with this prob...here is what i did to get it up. I'm not sure how much of this is overkill though... (for some reason, just reinstalling xfree didn't fix it) 1. delete cygwin and all shortcuts 2. run regedit, delete all cygwin entries 3. reinstall cygwin 4. install xfree: FOR THE TERMCAP AND LINK PROMPS, JUST SAY NO, i.e default enter at prompt 5. goto /usr/X11R6/bin 6. sh startxwin.sh This got it working, I haven't checked other ways of launching yet... Ed Nikolaus Bates-Haus wrote: I finally got a chance to check out the config on my home machine. I don't have /etc/hosts, either; what I did do was modify startxwin.bat (and startxwin.sh) to set DISPLAY to :0.0 - try that. -nik On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:18:29PM -0500, Ed Conrad wrote: Nikolaus Bates-Haus wrote: I ran into something like this setting up my home machine, to which I don't have access right now. It ended up being an issue with host / DISPLAY configuration; check out your /etc/hosts and make sure the entries make sense. I remember I had to do something with localhost and/or my chosen hostname, and 127.0.0.1, to get it to work. I dont have that directory. The only host files I found are in a perl scripts folders about 5 levels under the root. I did not see any display stuff like you talk about in any of them. Is there no one who knows why I cant get my window up? I think that what's happening is that XWin.exe starts, but all clients fail to connect, so it just shuts down immediately. I ended up setting my DISPLAY to something other than the default, as well (try setting your DISPLAY to be just :0 rather than 127.0.0.1:0) I tried that in bash, nota. -nik On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:01:58AM -0500, Ed Conrad wrote: Why don't you please re-read the original message. I explained what happens when I run the bat files. The path in the bat files are correct or it would not open the xwindow in the first place! You cant even open startx with the wrong path. I get the startx window, the window after that and then the xwin pops up for a second or so before it crashes. Something is going wrong when the xwindow is first opend. The fact that I can't run XWin.exe is just a clue I included because the user guide says I should be able to run it. Andrew Markebo wrote: / Ed Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | cygwin is installd. This is a bug or somekind or config problem i have. *bonk* you are trying to run Xwin.exe, what happens if you run startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh?? Basically the problem is that the environment variable PATH doesn't contain c:\cygwin\bin, or where you installed cygwin. If I recall right the startxwin-scripts sets this, but if you want to run without them, you have to set the path yourself. [...] | | If I try to run XWin.exe, it says that it cant find | | cygwin1.dll. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!
