Re: Cygwin-xfree installation problems

[Uwe Menzel <uwe dot menzel at genpat dot uu dot se>]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
> Please check the xdm logfile (/var/log/xdm-errors) 

Unfortunately, the folder "log" doesn't exist within "var", although
this is specified in the configuration file.
This is the configuration file:

! $Xorg: xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
!
!
!
!
! $XFree86: xc/programs/xdm/config/xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.7 2001/01/17 23:45:24 dawes Exp
$
!
DisplayManager.errorLogFile:	/var/log/xdm-errors
DisplayManager.pidFile:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
DisplayManager.keyFile:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
DisplayManager.servers:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
DisplayManager.accessFile:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
DisplayManager.willing:		su nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
! All displays should use authorization, but we cannot be sure
! X terminals will be configured that way, so by default
! use authorization only for local displays :0, :1, etc.
DisplayManager._0.authorize:	true
DisplayManager._1.authorize:	true
! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console.
DisplayManager._0.setup:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
DisplayManager._0.startup:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
DisplayManager._0.reset:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
!
DisplayManager*resources:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
DisplayManager*session:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
DisplayManager*authComplain:	false




> or start xdm in debugmode (xdm -debug 10).

I did this and got the output listed below.
I can't see any reason for the error message:
"Can't creat auth file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-001344"
The path exists and has all permissions ...

This is the complete output after calling xdm -debug 10:



DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value  /var/log/xdm-errors
DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true
DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true
DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true
DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true
DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value 
DisplayManager.randomFile/DisplayManager.RandomFile value /dev/mem
DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so
DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15
DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false
DisplayManager.willing/DisplayManager.Willing value  su nobody -c
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
Found new display:  :0  local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
StartDisplay :0
DisplayManager._0.serverAttempts/DisplayManager._0.ServerAttempts value 1
DisplayManager._0.openDelay/DisplayManager._0.OpenDelay value 15
DisplayManager._0.openRepeat/DisplayManager._0.OpenRepeat value 5
DisplayManager._0.openTimeout/DisplayManager._0.OpenTimeout value 120
DisplayManager._0.startAttempts/DisplayManager._0.StartAttempts value 4
DisplayManager._0.pingInterval/DisplayManager._0.PingInterval value 5
DisplayManager._0.pingTimeout/DisplayManager._0.PingTimeout value 5
DisplayManager._0.terminateServer/DisplayManager._0.TerminateServer value false
DisplayManager._0.grabServer/DisplayManager._0.GrabServer value false
DisplayManager._0.grabTimeout/DisplayManager._0.GrabTimeout value 3
DisplayManager._0.resetSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 1
DisplayManager._0.termSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 15
DisplayManager._0.resetForAuth/DisplayManager._0.ResetForAuth value false
DisplayManager._0.authorize/DisplayManager._0.Authorize value  true
DisplayManager._0.authComplain/DisplayManager._0.AuthComplain value  false
DisplayManager._0.authName/DisplayManager._0.AuthName value MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
DisplayManager._0.authFile/DisplayManager._0.AuthFile value 
SetLocalAuthorization :0, auth MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
GenerateAuthorization MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
Got 0xa016e68 (18 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1)  33 30 48 32 5d 56 22 5e 06 4a 7a 20 18 18 37
14
Can't creat auth file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-001344
xdm error (pid 1344): Cannot open server authorization file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-001344
StartServer for :0
Server Started 1156
'/usr/X11R6/bin/X' 
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

Fatal server error:
no screens found
display manager paused til SIGUSR1
DisplayManager._0.resources/DisplayManager._0.Resources value 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
DisplayManager._0.xrdb/DisplayManager._0.Xrdb value /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb
DisplayManager._0.setup/DisplayManager._0.Setup value 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
DisplayManager._0.startup/DisplayManager._0.Startup value 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
DisplayManager._0.reset/DisplayManager._0.Reset value 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
DisplayManager._0.session/DisplayManager._0.Session value 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
DisplayManager._0.userPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value
:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ucb
DisplayManager._0.systemPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value
/etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ucb
DisplayManager._0.systemShell/DisplayManager._0.Shell value /bin/sh
DisplayManager._0.failsafeClient/DisplayManager._0.FailsafeClient value
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
DisplayManager._0.userAuthDir/DisplayManager._0.UserAuthDir value /tmp
DisplayManager._0.chooser/DisplayManager._0.Chooser value
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/chooser
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
After XOpenDisplay(:0)
OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
waiting for server to start 0
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
After XOpenDisplay(:0)
OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
waiting for server to start 1
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
After XOpenDisplay(:0)
OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
waiting for server to start 2
Shutting down entire manager
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
After XOpenDisplay(:0)
OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
waiting for server to start 3
Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
After XOpenDisplay(:0)
OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
waiting for server to start 4
giving up on server
xdm error (pid 1344): server open failed for :0, giving up