Jon TURNEY wrote: > > On 06/10/2010 16:10, davidstvz wrote: >> I have done additional testing on this problem and it seems that the >> first >> user to login and run 'startxwin' owns all of the log and lock files and >> this is what is causing the problem. The first user can continue using >> xwin >> without issues, but no other users can do it after that. >> >> If someone would upgrade xwin to to make these file names unique for each >> user it should solve the problem. Meanwhile, I'm envisioning several >> workarounds. > > The log file issue is discussed and a workaround given at [1] > > The lock file should be removed on xwin exit, so should not be a problem > unless xwin is crashing for you, in which case report that problem. > > Making the lock file name unique per user is a non-solution, as it > prevents it > from locking against multiple simultaneous uses of the same display > number. > > [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-08/msg00090.html > > -- > 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 > > >
Ah, I see how that is a non-solution. I should stick to what I know. In any case, XWin is not crashing per se, instead when I type "exit" from the initial xterminal and exit cygwin (or press the windows close button) it remains running in the background. So to open it again, I have to first terminate it from the task manager which I suppose qualifies as a crash. I've solved the problem by scheduling a task to delete the log and lock files when any user logs in (well, to mostly delete; windows refuses to let me delete the socket file descriptor so I had to rename it to a random number). -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/cygwin-%2B-xwin-in-win7-as-unprivileged-user--tp29889419p29899035.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
