Re: X starting difficulties
As long as those errors appear together with a ZoneAlarm installation I'm going to blame ZoneAlarm to mess with the winsock layer and break things. Luke, probably this will not satisfy you, but I really recommend using almost any other personal firewall different than ZoneAlarm - I have no problems with Kerio Personal Firewall, previously I used Tiny Personal Firewall (both free of charge for personal use). I also have heard that BlackIce is a good piece of software. Symantec software requires lots of system resources :\ So Zonealarm is probably the worst thing to be installed as a personal firewall, although it is still better than IP traffic filter build in Windows XP. -- Greetings Tomasz Rojek
Re: 2 instances of Xwin
Amr Mohamed Roushdi wrote: Hi Alex thks againg , I have tried the following after checking that all ports available and nothing is dangling in the /tmp/.X11-UNIX . I tried to fire Xwin withouth the -from parameter I receive a grey screen and no XDM . I am enclosing a TCPVIEW for before the 1st session of xwin and then after starting the 1st Xwin session . It a netstatish output with PID's thks again more interesting is the situation before a failing xwin start. bye ago NP: Diorama - Klarheit -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: 2 instances of Xwin
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Amr Mohamed Roushdi wrote: Alex do u need anything more from me . I just tried this myself again. XWin :1 -query server -from host XWin :2 -query server -from host The first works, the second will not startup while the first is running but does when the first is not running. Is this exactly your situation? If it is then there is not much I can do to allow using -from twice without rewriting a large part of the xdmcp part. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
X don't like Zonealarm 5
in fact I uninstalled it today, and X come back to full functionality
Re: X don't like Zonealarm 5
I can verify that; I can also verify that it does not like Norton Internet Firewall. There were severe problems starting xterms/emacs in X mode (ie 4 mn startup times). After uninstall, these disappeared. This was *after* explicitly 'allowing' these programs to access DNS etc. regards Kerr. desk (US): 01 212 250 0649 desk (UK): 44 207 547 0670 cell: 44 7880 641 334 electa [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] il.com cc: Sent by: Subject: X don't like Zonealarm 5 cygwin-xfree-owner @cygwin.com 19/07/2004 14:05 Please respond to cygwin-xfree in fact I uninstalled it today, and X come back to full functionality -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
Re: 2 instances of Xwin
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Amr Mohamed Roushdi wrote: Alex u are right in diagnosing the problem . Earlier releases accept it though ??? I have no older version handy but found the same code in all releases up to XFree 4.0. I'll check if I find older binaries at home. Now my question would be how to get Xwin running without -from parameter ? I'll take a look at the ls_netdev output you've sent me some time ago and will try to trace which interface is used first and which can be discarded. I am enclosing cygcheck output for the xwin working with 2 sessions . If you use it without -from parameter there must either be a message in the logfile about xdm giving up (sesssion declined error) or some message at the xdm server. You'll have to wait a short time until the timeout happens. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: 2 instances of Xwin
Now my question would be how to get Xwin running without -from parameter ? If you use it without -from parameter there must either be a message in the logfile about xdm giving up (sesssion declined error) or some message at the xdm server. You'll have to wait a short time until the timeout happens. I'm not sure if this applys here, but: i found that my xdm variant here (kdm) has the option SourceAdress. Setting this to true solved my need for -from. [Xdmcp] # Whether KDM should listen to XDMCP requests. Default is true. Enable=true # Use the numeric IP address of the incoming connection instead of the # host name. Use this on multihomed hosts. Default is false SourceAddress=true
RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?
A bluescreen is an error inside the windows kernel. Either the base system it self or some drivers (i suspect the second). Software can only trigger this. But there have been only minor changes in Cygwin/X and I doubt they could lead to a bluescreen since no hardware access has changed. Well, I've tried upgrading the video drivers as well as the network drivers. Still get the blue screens. So, suspecting my wired network card drivers, i then used my wireless network card. Same. Blue Screen. The only other thing that I can think of was brought up in other posts - I have Zone Alarm 5 and Norton Antivirus 2004 Pro running. Anybody else out there getting XP blue screens with cygwin when running ZAP and/or NAV? I believe the difference with your system is some driver which was updated before and which is not current yet. I suspected as much, too, except that I've exahusted (I think) those possibilities. I'm fully updated as far as Windows Update is concerned; and, I pulled down the latest video network drivers from the respective companies. You could build XWin with debugging output. This prints received windows messages, some work in windows specific functions is traced but not the network layer. The low level unix calls (for network code) can be trace with strace. But this will not produce useful output if the kernel goes wild and prints the bluescreen right after the data was written to the screen. Maybe writing the data to harddisk may help but I think the bluescreen will leave disk buffers unwritten and you'll get a logfile which truncated a long time before the actual crash happens. All of this is unfortunate; even if, technically, it's Windows that has the problem, the net result is that I can't use cygwin, unless I can figure out what is causing the problem, and take action to correct it Steve
RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?
Forgot to mention that before the bluescreens, I saw (but couldn't capture accurately) errors of the form: x error bad window invalid window parameter (and alternately 3 and 5 on the end of these types of messages). Not sure if that is relevant, but I did see them. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Listopad, Steve Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen? A bluescreen is an error inside the windows kernel. Either the base system it self or some drivers (i suspect the second). Software can only trigger this. But there have been only minor changes in Cygwin/X and I doubt they could lead to a bluescreen since no hardware access has changed. Well, I've tried upgrading the video drivers as well as the network drivers. Still get the blue screens. So, suspecting my wired network card drivers, i then used my wireless network card. Same. Blue Screen. The only other thing that I can think of was brought up in other posts - I have Zone Alarm 5 and Norton Antivirus 2004 Pro running. Anybody else out there getting XP blue screens with cygwin when running ZAP and/or NAV? I believe the difference with your system is some driver which was updated before and which is not current yet. I suspected as much, too, except that I've exahusted (I think) those possibilities. I'm fully updated as far as Windows Update is concerned; and, I pulled down the latest video network drivers from the respective companies. You could build XWin with debugging output. This prints received windows messages, some work in windows specific functions is traced but not the network layer. The low level unix calls (for network code) can be trace with strace. But this will not produce useful output if the kernel goes wild and prints the bluescreen right after the data was written to the screen. Maybe writing the data to harddisk may help but I think the bluescreen will leave disk buffers unwritten and you'll get a logfile which truncated a long time before the actual crash happens. All of this is unfortunate; even if, technically, it's Windows that has the problem, the net result is that I can't use cygwin, unless I can figure out what is causing the problem, and take action to correct it Steve
RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?
I use Norton Systemworks and Norton Internet Security on XP Pro. No problems with X11. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Listopad, Steve Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen? Forgot to mention that before the bluescreens, I saw (but couldn't capture accurately) errors of the form: x error bad window invalid window parameter (and alternately 3 and 5 on the end of these types of messages). Not sure if that is relevant, but I did see them. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Listopad, Steve Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen? A bluescreen is an error inside the windows kernel. Either the base system it self or some drivers (i suspect the second). Software can only trigger this. But there have been only minor changes in Cygwin/X and I doubt they could lead to a bluescreen since no hardware access has changed. Well, I've tried upgrading the video drivers as well as the network drivers. Still get the blue screens. So, suspecting my wired network card drivers, i then used my wireless network card. Same. Blue Screen. The only other thing that I can think of was brought up in other posts - I have Zone Alarm 5 and Norton Antivirus 2004 Pro running. Anybody else out there getting XP blue screens with cygwin when running ZAP and/or NAV? I believe the difference with your system is some driver which was updated before and which is not current yet. I suspected as much, too, except that I've exahusted (I think) those possibilities. I'm fully updated as far as Windows Update is concerned; and, I pulled down the latest video network drivers from the respective companies. You could build XWin with debugging output. This prints received windows messages, some work in windows specific functions is traced but not the network layer. The low level unix calls (for network code) can be trace with strace. But this will not produce useful output if the kernel goes wild and prints the bluescreen right after the data was written to the screen. Maybe writing the data to harddisk may help but I think the bluescreen will leave disk buffers unwritten and you'll get a logfile which truncated a long time before the actual crash happens. All of this is unfortunate; even if, technically, it's Windows that has the problem, the net result is that I can't use cygwin, unless I can figure out what is causing the problem, and take action to correct it Steve
RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Listopad, Steve wrote: Forgot to mention that before the bluescreens, I saw (but couldn't capture accurately) errors of the form: x error bad window invalid window parameter (and alternately 3 and 5 on the end of these types of messages). Not sure if that is relevant, but I did see them. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Listopad, Steve Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen? [snip] See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding. Igor P.S. Oh, and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Entry point not found error in windows
I downloaded cygwin/X from a mirror in the UK (I had the same problem when I downloaded from www.gwdg.de). and tried to install it onto my Windows XP machine. when I try to run XWin.exe or any other executable I get the following Windows error: Entry Point Not Found, The Procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll I found a larger version of cygwin1.dll in the bin directory and copied that into usr/X11R6/bin. this time I got got another error message about not having the file cygfreetype-6.dll. Can you help me out here? I would like to be able to have a working X server on this machine Best Regards and thanks a million Josh Goldberg
