On 7/22/2015 4:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 21 23:13, Robert McBroom wrote:
>> Having problems with the X interface in Windows 10 (currently build 10240).
>> /bin/startxwin fails with the symptoms in the attached file xwin.txt. The
>> output from cygcheck -cv is also attached. What am I missing?
>> [...]
>> granp@WIN-xx /
>> $ ls -la
>> total 1303
>> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group      0 May 21 15:33 .
> This looks weird.  Did you copy your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files
> from another machine, by any chance?  If you have both files, simply
> remove them.  Check if you have a /etc/nsswitch.conf(*) file and
> remove it as well.
>
> Exit all Cygwin processes and start a single shell.  What does
> `id' print?  What does `ls -l' print now?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
> (*) In the long run, you might want to read
>      https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
>
Startxwin worked after doing "chown granp:granp /tmp".

/etc/passwd and /etc/group files don't exist.

The file

/etc/nsswitch.conf
was default dated from January. Moved it.

The output from `id and `ls -l is in the attached file.