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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:10:23 -0500
From: Jonathan Keatley <jckeatley AT usa DOT net>
To: Jonathan Keatley <jckeatley AT usa DOT net>,
   Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Cygwin DLL 1.3.11-3 causes setuid failure with xterm on NT 4.0]
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After looking at yesterday's posts by Wayne Keen, I rebuilt my /etc/passwd
file per his procedure, and reinstalled cygwin-1.3.11-3, and xterm works fine
now.  I already had an ~/.Xauthority file from experimenting yesterday. 
Thanks Wayne!

Jonathan

Jonathan Keatley <jckeatley AT usa DOT net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've encountered a problem with the latest release of the Cygwin DLL. 
> Previously I was using version 1.3.10-1, and had no problems with XFree86
or
> xterm.  However, when I upgraded to cygwin-1.3.11-3 yesterday, I suddenly
> could not start xterm.  I could start any other X11 application I wanted
to,
> but xterm would flash on the screen briefly and immediately exit.  I ran
xterm
> with the -hold parameter, and the window stayed up and displayed something
> like "setuid failed: Permission denied".  So I ran strace on it and found
that
> a call to seteuid was failing.  I tried backgrading several components of
> XFree86, and that changed nothing, so this morning I tried backgrading to
> cygwin-1.3.10-1, and that fixed the problem with xterm.  This problem is
> occurring on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a,
> with the screen resolution set to 1600x1200, true color.  If you need me to
> capture the output of running strace with xterm with 1.3.11-3, I can do
that
> and send it to you.
> 
> Could you check this out and fix it please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan Keatley
> 



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