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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:22:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6416099-8249-9240-0293-d9b59b7e7f04@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <upzcpna318gd.fsf@dod.no>

On 13.06.2020 14:00, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> 
>> as attachment was mentioned in the link.
>> In line screw up the search function of the mailing list
>> archive.
> 
> Sorry!
> 
>>> USER = 'sbang'
>>> PWD = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang'
>>> HOME = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang'
> 
>> It is never a good idea to have the Cygwin Home dir the
>> same of Windows user dir
> 
> Why this not a good idea?

because permissions like the one needed for ssh
can be screwd by Windows ACL permission inherited

>> have you modified the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" ?
> 
> Not intentionally.  It looks like this:
> 
> sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> # /etc/nsswitch.conf
> #
> #    This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
> #    To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes.  For a description
> #    see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
> #
> # Defaults:
> # passwd:   files db
> # group:    files db
> # db_enum:  cache builtin
> # db_home:  /home/%U
> db_home:  windows
> # db_shell: /bin/bash
> # db_gecos: <empty>

can you reset the default

db_home:  /home/%U


close all processes and try X again ?
This should use /home/sbang as your new home and
we can see if it is a permission problem that is causing
issue to Xwin



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-13 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-11 15:57 Steinar Bang
2020-06-13  6:30 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-13  9:30   ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 11:22     ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-13 12:00       ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 13:22         ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2020-06-13 15:48           ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 16:44             ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 20:37       ` Andrey Repin
2020-06-13  9:35   ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13  9:55     ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 11:31       ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-13 12:03         ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 12:09           ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 13:14         ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-06-13 13:29           ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-13  9:04 ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-13 21:15   ` Jon Turney
2020-06-14 10:44     ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-14 11:18       ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-06-14 16:12         ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-14 17:49           ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-14 21:45             ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-14 22:21               ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-06-15 12:17                 ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-06-15 12:57                   ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-06-16  4:22                   ` Brian Inglis
2020-08-02 20:25                   ` Steinar Bang
2020-08-02 21:00                     ` Eliot Moss
2020-08-04 12:01                       ` Steinar Bang
2020-08-04 13:12                         ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-08-04 16:55                         ` ASSI
2020-06-16  4:59                 ` ASSI
2020-07-02 15:01               ` Steinar Bang
2020-07-02 22:12                 ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-06-16 11:46     ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-06-26  9:15       ` Holger, Vodafone
2020-07-02 14:42         ` Steinar Bang
2020-06-14  6:18 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-14 10:38   ` Steinar Bang

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