X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Alessandro Lendaro Subject: Re: problems with running Gnome applications Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:23:42 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Korn wrote: > This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set > in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty > common cause of "Bad system call" errors. > > Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if > you had sent your cygcheck output as an attachment, like it says at > http://cygwin.com/problems.html ! that is what i was talking about, a simple and clean tutorial that shows what needs to be done for setting a working cygwin + gnome2 environment without having to read hundreds of hard-to-find FAQ/Docs... i can't say I have much spare time to do that. That's also one of the puroposes of this ng, I think. Thanks for the healp anyway, Alessandro -- 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/