From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30852 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 15:17:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 30842 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 15:17:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO central.ixn.com) (65.19.132.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 15:17:14 -0000 Received: from msu.edu ([207.179.68.222]) (authenticated bits=0) by central.ixn.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0DFH99S058740 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:17:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40040BF6.1060207@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:17:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem connecting to Solaris 8 systems using Xwin References: <5ABC4497FD46ED44908A8A58B1853B9A155614@babylon.tecnomen.ie> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00286.txt.bz2 List-Id: Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Martin McNelis wrote: > > >>Surely if that was the case I would be unable to connect to Solaris 2.6 >>boxes, which I can. The keyboard mapping problem is one I've always had >>with Cygwin as the keyboard I use is for UK and Ireland. That has never >>stopped me connecting to a box. The only thing that has ever caused the >>same problem for me before was if a Solaris box was called without >>specifying a font server. I've checked that the font server is running on >>the Solaris 8 boxes but still now luck. Is it possible that the Font server >>for Solaris 8 has changed slightly and is no longer compatible with Cygwin? > > > I don't think so. I've used cygwin/X to connect to Solaris 8 too and had > no problems. If it is even crashing then there must be a bigger problem. > > Have you started XWin with special parameters (eg -multiwindow, -clipboard)? > > @Harold: Do you have a debug build ready. I'd like Martin to try it in > gdb to get a backtrace where the server crashed. No, I do not have a debug build ready. I could perhaps make one, but it will take a bit. Harold