RE: 1.5.18: I give up...
Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:45 AM: David Masterson wrote: I guess I'll give Cygwin some time to mature and come back to it in the future. It is all working here very well. (XP SP2 latest updates) It is obviously something with your setup. I agree. The word mature was probably not the best -- I intended it to mean my environment more than Cygwin. Maybe an old cygwin1.dll somewhere. Or an extra local Firewall, or all local ports close, or ... I recently found out that my IP address had two names and I'm still investigating the effects of that. But if it is only X you need try out Xming (googleit) . It has a nice simple Installer and not so many things to break up. Hmmm. Thanks. David Masterson -- 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/
1.5.18: I give up...
Well, I've tried to install the latest version of Cygwin from mirrors.kernel.org onto my Windows-XP (SP2) system several times now without much luck. I'm pretty sure (based on previous usage and all the other people using it) that its a problem in my environment, but I don't know what. I'm wasting too much time to try to solve this, so I'll have to look for another way. My goal was to install the Cygwin X server so that I could display X programs from other systems locally. Along the way, I ran into a number of issues (minor to large) that I'll mention here: * I chose to use setup.exe (v2.457.2.2) to download everything to a local directory and then install my choices (usually everything) from the local directory. This generally works well and I have no problems with the process, but... * At my work, I have to use a proxy server with (I guess) a weird port number. Although I filled this information into setup.exe and it worked fine with it, setup forgot the port number on subsequent runs (it fell back to port 80). * When looking at the categorized list of things to select to install, I would expand a category by clicking on the +. Most systems would change the + to a -, but not setup.exe (a very minor issue). * After installing everything, if I couldn't get X to work properly (see below), I would immediately use setup.exe to uninstall everything. While doing the uninstall of some packages, setup.exe would report missing DLL(s), but it didn't give an indication of what to do about it (other than acknowledge the error). * After I installed everything and had modified my /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I tried to bring up the X server via /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh. It brought up the X server and tried to bring up the xterm, but the xterm died before it finished printing my prompt. I've posted about this before, but no replies to this and I haven't got the time to do the serious debugging necessary. * Previously with 1.5.17, the xterm did come up properly, but Emacs (started locally or remotely) would immediately fail. XEmacs (started locally or remotely) would seem to work until you tried to exit and then would crash. I guess I'll give Cygwin some time to mature and come back to it in the future. David Masterson -- 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/
FW: Installation issues (newbie)
Someone on the Cygwin list suggested I post this here. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Masterson Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:43 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Installation issues (newbie) I used to use Cygwin a long time ago and am now coming back to it. My setup: * Dell Precision Workstation 370 * MS-Windows XP Pro v5.1.2600 Step 1: Install Cygwin * I used setup.exe to first download all of Cygwin to my local hard drive. I do this so that, if I install it a few times, I don't have to hit the Internet after the first time. Somewhat faster. * After downloading everything, I used setup.exe to install the Default. A couple of times, this gave me errors in the postinstall steps about some DLL, but it didn't repeat consistently, so... * After I installed, I brought up Bash and got the usual message about /etc/passwd /etc/group. I used mkpasswd and mkgroup to fill them in. * Default (I believe) doesn't install MAN pages or editors, so figuring out what mkpasswd/mkgroup did and/or adjusting it is kind of difficult. This should be fixed or documented better. Step 2: Get an X server working * Default doesn't install any X, so I reran setup.exe to do an All install (I have room). This got me a Cygwin/X menu in the Start menu list, but didn't provide any obvious way of starting an X server. * Suggestion: Have setup.exe add an icon for startxwin.bat to the Desktop. I manually did that. * Double-clicking startxwin.bat brings up an X server and xterm with the root window hidden. Xclock also seems to work properly. Step 3: Get an editor running * Starting emacs from the xterm window brings up emacs, but it immediately crashes when you try to do anything in it. * Starting xemacs from the xterm window seems a little better as you can do things in it, but it crashes when you try to exit from XEmacs. * I then did an xhost + to disable access control. * Running emacs from an RHEL3 system with the display pointed at my Cygwin system brought up a window, but immediately crashed. * Running xemacs from the RHEL3 system with the display pointed to my Cygwin system worked much better and seemed normal (most times!). I tested this a few times and XEmacs did crash once. So what's wrong with the X server in Cygwin? Since I'm just getting going, I posted this to the cygwin mailing list -- later I may move to the cygwin-xfree mailing list. David Masterson -- 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/
