From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30663 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2012 18:14:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 30653 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Mar 2012 18:14:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-04.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:14:16 +0000 Received: from mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.31]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F337CAA071 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:14:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-14-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95A01BB318 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:14:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.134.128] (217-162-182-175.dynamic.hispeed.ch [217.162.182.175]) (Authenticated sender: dirk.fassbender@arcor.de) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BBA4D197AD7 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:14:14 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-09.arcor-online.net BBA4D197AD7 Message-ID: <4F7354FC.3080401@arcor.de> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:14:00 -0000 From: Dirk Fassbender User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cannot launch ssh from X11 system tray icon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 Am 28.03.2012 12:10, schrieb Craig: > I don't suppose anyone has any thoughts on this? > It's rendered Cygwin X11 unusable. :-( > Can any further diagnostics be enabled? > > On 23 March 2012 17:56, Craig wrote: >> I have two machines, a desktop and a laptop. >> Both are 64bit Windows 7 Enterprise installations. >> >> I (think I) configured Cygwin on both the same and they have the same >> identical ~/.XWinrc file. >> They both use the same mirror for installing and are both fully up to date. >> >> A précis of my .XWinrc looks like this: >> >> menu root { >> // Comments fit here, too... >> "Xterm" exec "xterm" >> "Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh vulpix xterm -e bash --login" >> } >> >> And on the desktop both work and on the laptop only the local xterm will run. >> Nothing appers in /var/log/ >> >> So I added an entry like this: >> >> "Experiment" exec ~/experiment >> >> and ~/experiment looks like this >> >> #!/bin/bash >> ( >> set -x >> ssh -v vulpix xterm >> )> /tmp/experiment 2>&1 >> >> It still fails (i.e. does nothing) and /tmp/experiment has >> >> >> So can anyone tell me why I get the select / waitForMultipleObjects error? >> >> If I'm in the xterm I *can* run, I have zero problems running >> >> $ ssh vulpix xterm -e bash --login > Hello Craig, you have to use X11 Forwarding. Try menu root { // Comments fit here, too... "Xterm" exec "xterm" "Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh -Y vulpix xterm -e bash --login" } or menu root { // Comments fit here, too... "Xterm" exec "xterm" "Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh -X vulpix xterm -e bash --login" } Dirk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/