From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7187 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 15:32:17 -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 7179 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 15:32:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO central.ixn.com) (65.19.132.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 15:32:16 -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 i0DFWA9S059723 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:32:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40040F7B.8070506@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:32:00 -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 CC: martin.mcnelis@tecnomen.ie Subject: Re: Problem connecting to Solaris 8 systems using Xwin References: <5ABC4497FD46ED44908A8A58B1853B9A155611@babylon.tecnomen.ie> In-Reply-To: <5ABC4497FD46ED44908A8A58B1853B9A155611@babylon.tecnomen.ie> 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/msg00291.txt.bz2 List-Id: Martin, It just occurred to me that you never (and you only posted one message that I can see) stated what version of XFree86-xserv you had installed. From a Cygwin bash shell, run the following command and send the reported version to the mailing list: cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv Harold Martin McNelis wrote: > Hi, > > I've googled and searched the archives for a fix for this and although I've > seen many people with the same problem I have yet to see a solution that > works. > > When connecting to a Solaris * system with the usual: > xwin -query $solarisbox > > It hangs at the Egg Timer. Black screen, white egg timer. > > If I use: > xwin -query $solarisbox -fp tcp/$solarisbox:7100 > > I get the following: > $ xwin -query snail -fp tcp/snail:7100 > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > >>Error: Can't find file "pc/uk" for symbols include >> Exiting >> Abandoning symbols file "default" > > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > >>Error: Can't find file "pc/uk" for symbols include >> Exiting >> Abandoning symbols file "default" > > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > and the screen flashes three times as it attempts to load the next screen > then fails. > > This works perfectly with Solaris 2.6 boxes. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Martin >