From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54416 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2015 15:35:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 54400 invoked by uid 89); 19 Aug 2015 15:35:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:35:18 +0000 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86FB208BF for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:35:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:35:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-113-234.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.113.234]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3D555C00018; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:35:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user To: "L. D. James" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <55D3B9F1.7040603@apollo3.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jon TURNEY Message-ID: <55D4A22E.9030505@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55D3B9F1.7040603@apollo3.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00332.txt.bz2 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) -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple