DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 3A4EC386F432
Subject: Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <upzcv9jx3891.fsf@dod.no>
 <00a576fe-1539-f890-6cea-8ec00875623a@gmail.com> <upzcblln2tzg.fsf@dod.no>
 <96986498-2013-6ae8-929d-64699ec5a4ef@gmail.com> <upzcpna318gd.fsf@dod.no>
Message-ID: <e6416099-8249-9240-0293-d9b59b7e7f04@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:22:09 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/68.9.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <upzcpna318gd.fsf@dod.no>
Content-Language: it
Precedence: list
From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Reply-To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"
Errors-To: cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com>

On 13.06.2020 14:00, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> 
>> as attachment was mentioned in the link.
>> In line screw up the search function of the mailing list
>> archive.
> 
> Sorry!
> 
>>> USER = 'sbang'
>>> PWD = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang'
>>> HOME = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang'
> 
>> It is never a good idea to have the Cygwin Home dir the
>> same of Windows user dir
> 
> Why this not a good idea?

because permissions like the one needed for ssh
can be screwd by Windows ACL permission inherited

>> have you modified the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" ?
> 
> Not intentionally.  It looks like this:
> 
> sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> # /etc/nsswitch.conf
> #
> #    This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
> #    To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes.  For a description
> #    see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
> #
> # Defaults:
> # passwd:   files db
> # group:    files db
> # db_enum:  cache builtin
> # db_home:  /home/%U
> db_home:  windows
> # db_shell: /bin/bash
> # db_gecos: <empty>

can you reset the default

db_home:  /home/%U


close all processes and try X again ?
This should use /home/sbang as your new home and
we can see if it is a permission problem that is causing
issue to Xwin


--
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple