From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 49936 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2016 11:54:24 -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 49927 invoked by uid 89); 8 Mar 2016 11:54:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=listening, Dell, dell, rdns X-HELO: out5-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:54:14 +0000 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB22E2089D for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 06:54:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:54:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-112-186.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.112.186]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7EF4CC00016 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 06:54:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: startx xauth unknown command (was Re: Installing X11 on a Dell E6440) References: <56D1DCF0.7040005@gmail.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <56DEBD61.7070702@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:54:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56D1DCF0.7040005@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 On 27/02/2016 17:29, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 27/02/2016 14:57, Robert Haskins wrote: > >> { ~ } » startxwin >> xauth: (stdin):2: unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2" >> xauth: (stdin):3: unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2" >> xauth: (stdin):4: unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2" >> xauth: (stdin):5: unknown command "01c8a525b1e7d7cde2587e307895bfa2" > > > this is strange. But it happens also on my X and it works > so I presume is not the root cause. Interesting. This seems to be a long-standing upstream bug with startx (of which startxwin is a slightly modified version), (see [1]), that startx does not handle correctly the output of xauth when you have more than one network interface. Further, if you have many network interfaces, performing rDNS on all their addresses may add significantly to the time it takes to start up the X server. I think the suggestion of patching startx to use $hostname/unix:0 is a good one, especially since -nolisten tcp is now the default, the X server won't be listening on IP interfaces (... unless someone chooses to startx -- -listen tcp --nolisten unix, in which case it will probably fail horribly ...) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13462 -- 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