From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "L. D. James" <ljames@apollo3.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D4A22E.9030505@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D3B9F1.7040603@apollo3.com>
On 19/08/2015 00:04, L. D. James wrote:
> I installed Cygwin on Windows XP with X11. I tested it and it works as
> expected.
>
> Then I logged in as a normal user (not administrator). I get the
> following error when trying to X11:
>
> A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
> Cannot open log file "/var/log/xwin/XWin.1.log"
>
> Please open the logfile for more information.
>
> Vendor: The Cygwin/XProject
> Contact: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Package: version 1.17-2.2build-2015-08-11
>
> XWin was started with the following command-line:
>
> /usr/bin/X :1 -auth /home/user/.serverauth.2872
>
> I performed a fresh install of Windows XP and got the same results.
>
> I found that if I add the user account to Administrators X11 will then
> work without errors.
>
> Can someone advise what has to be done to make X11 work with a normal
> user's account?
Thanks for reporting this issue.
It looks like the directory /var/log/xwin/ doesn't have the right
permissions in the package.
You should be able to fix this, until the package is fixed, by doing a
'chmod 0777 /var/log/xwin' (as an Adminstrator user)
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Jon TURNEY
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