Re: Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: > Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered > a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process > couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Ah, good, that was my next question... :-) I'm glad you found the problem.

Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the correct