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Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> · Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:31:46 +0200

On 13.06.2020 11:55, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb AT dod DOT no>:
> 
>>>>>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>:
>>> can you start X11 with startxwin ?
>>> If you start with just "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard"
>>> does it work ?
> 
>> startxwin isn't found:
>>   sbang AT ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin
>>   -bash: startxwin: command not found
>>   sbang AT ITEM-S63383:~$ which startxwin
>>   which: no startxwin in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/cmd:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Calibre2:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/GnuWin32/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_241/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/PuTTY:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Local/
>>   Microsoft/WindowsApps:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Local/Programs/Fiddler:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Roaming/npm:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin:/cygdrive/c/Application
>>   s/Atlassian/atlassian-plugin-sdk-8.0.16/bin:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/apps/bin:/usr/local/go)
>>   sbang AT ITEM-S63383:~$
> 
>> I thought it might be because xorg-scripts wasn't installed, so I
>> installed xorg-scripts 1.0.1-1, but it didb't make startxwin appear.
> 
>> I *do* have xorg-server 1.20.5-3 installed (and it was working until a
>> couple of days ago).
> 
>> startxwin is supposed to be installed with xorg-server?
> 
> I was missing the xinit package and installed xinit 1.4.1-1 and then I
> got startxwin.
> 
> It failed in the startup with messages that looks similar to the ones
> output to the log file:
> sbang AT ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin
> xauth:  file /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.Xauthority does not exist
> xauth:  file /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.Xauthority does not exist
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.20.5.0
> OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-18363 ITEM-S63383 3.1.5-340.x86_64 2020-06-01 08:59 UTC x86_64
> OS: Windows 10  [Windows NT 10.0 build 18363] (Win64)
> Package: version 1.20.5-3 built 2019-09-06
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth
>   /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.serverauth.1056
> 
> (II) xorg.conf is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
> LoadPreferences: /cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang/.XWinrc not found
> LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
> LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
> winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: no
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000005
> xinit: giving up
> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused


this looks like another program blocking the effort
and it can be as Xwin can NOT write files with the needed
permission on your home directory


What is the output of
   grep home  /etc/nsswitch.conf

Regards
Marco

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