Re: Progress? (again, please try a snapshot)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:24:55PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>Chris,
>
>> Does the log file contain any useful information, by any chance?
>
>None.  Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't get an error, only xterm does.
>
>> Do you think you could do a
>>
>> strace -ox:\somewhere\strace.out sh startxwin.sh , bzip2 strace.out,
>> and send it to me?
>
>I'll try to tomorrow.
>
>>Just to be clear, this is just as simple as running the xserver and
>>opening up an xterm, right?  Unfortunately, that works fine for me
>>under 1.3.11 and the snapshot.  I am running on Windows XP.  Don't know
>>why that would make a difference, though.
>
>This problem doesn't happen on my home Windows 2000 machine, nor does
>it happen on my NT Workstation 4.0 machine at work (though I haven't
>upgraded cygwin1.dll in a week or more).  The problem only happens on a
>Windows 2000 machine that I use at work (which I just installed Cygwin
>on two days ago).  Both machines at work are members of a *domain*
>while my home machine is not in a domain.  Also, I can only logon to
>both machines at work as a domain user, as I have no local account and
>I don't have administrator priveleges to create one (and it'd blow my
>cover if I told them I needed a local account for debugging
>Cygwin/XFree86 :)

Hmm.  If you do a:

mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin

does the problem go away, perchance?  I would expect it to.

cgf