From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 87456 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2015 15:46:07 -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 87448 invoked by uid 89); 19 Aug 2015 15:46:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: ubuntuserver.apollo3.com Received: from hera.apollo3.com (HELO ubuntuserver.apollo3.com) (50.75.184.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:46:05 +0000 Received: from localhost (ubuntuserver [127.0.0.1]) by ubuntuserver.apollo3.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6CADFFA2 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:46:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ubuntuserver.apollo3.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ubuntuserver.apollo3.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cL13Nv440p76 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:46:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [50.75.184.39] (fs5 [50.75.184.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ubuntuserver.apollo3.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46AA2DFB4F for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:46:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <55D4A4B7.6070104@apollo3.com> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:46:00 -0000 From: "L. D. James" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user References: <55D3B9F1.7040603@apollo3.com> <55D4A22E.9030505@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <55D4A22E.9030505@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00333.txt.bz2 On 08/19/2015 11:35 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > 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 You're welcome. It works! Thanks! -- L. James -- L. D. James ljames@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames -- 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