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Re: Problems with cygwin in Windows 10


On 7/22/2015 4:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jul 21 23:13, Robert McBroom wrote:
Having problems with the X interface in Windows 10 (currently build 10240).
/bin/startxwin fails with the symptoms in the attached file xwin.txt. The
output from cygcheck -cv is also attached. What am I missing?
[...]
granp@WIN-xx /
$ ls -la
total 1303
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group      0 May 21 15:33 .
This looks weird.  Did you copy your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files
from another machine, by any chance?  If you have both files, simply
remove them.  Check if you have a /etc/nsswitch.conf(*) file and
remove it as well.

Exit all Cygwin processes and start a single shell.  What does
`id' print?  What does `ls -l' print now?


Corinna


(*) In the long run, you might want to read
     https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

Startxwin worked after doing "chown granp:granp /tmp".

/etc/passwd and /etc/group files don't exist.

The file

/etc/nsswitch.conf
was default dated from January. Moved it.

The output from `id and `ls -l is in the attached file.

Attachment: cyg.txt
Description: Text document

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