RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver S Dungey [mailto:odungey@csc.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 11:32 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
> 
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> 
> Openwindows is being discontinued as you rightly say. In 
> addition CDE is being dropped as Sun are adopting GNOME.
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 


Yeah right... I know
but you can install GNOME and/or KDE they supply it on options CD or I think
you can download from www.sunfreeware.com


Suhaib

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> Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>@sources.redhat.com 
> on 10/08/2001 13:03:48
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> Sent by:  cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
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> To:
> cc:   "'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'"
>       <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Subject:  RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
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> > Sorry to pop in 'out of the blue', but I am a USER (read NOT A 
> > DEVELOPER) of Cygwin/Xfree and I have the same problems with 3 
> > different Solaris boxes and 7 different W2k machines.
> >
> > I have the same setup on each of 7 different W2k machines:
> >    Latest Cygwin binaries, latest Xfree 4.1.0 release,
> >    statrup script on a network share containing:
> >         XWin -screen 0 1024x768x256 -query
> > $TARGET_SERVER -fp tcp/$TARGET_SERVER:7100
> >
> > My 3 Solaris boxes are set up in the following manner (all with the 
> > latest 'Sun Recommended Patch' packages applied:
> >    1 - Solaris 8 (Intel)
> >    1 - Solaris 8 (Sparc - Netra T 1125)
> >    1 - Solaris 7 (Sparc - Netra T 1125)
> >
> > Like Oliver, I can log in to OpenWindows without a hitch, 
> but as soon 
> > as you select CDE as your environment, as soon as the 
> desktop finishes 
> > rendering,
> 
> Have you tried setting CDE as default desktop environment on 
> the Sun machines?
> 
> The OpenWindows will be a history in next release of Solaris. 
>  I read that due to several issues and incomplabilities Sun 
> plans to discontnue OpenWindows for good.
> 
> 
> Suhaib
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> 
> >XFree locks up forcing the "three
> > finger salute" (to bring up task manager) so you can kill it.
> >
> > I, too, have searched every machine for multiple .DLL's and 
> none have 
> > been located on any of the 7 W2k workstations.
> >
> > Hope this helps in some way.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Randal Cobb
> > Applications Architect
> > Daugherty Systems, Inc.
> > (770) 475-7218
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Oliver S 
> > Dungey
> > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 3:36 AM
> > To: Harold Hunt
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for trying it out with Solaris on Intel:
> >
> > The command line I use at startup is as follows:
> > XWin -screen 0 1600 1200 -fp tcp/dolphin:1234 -query dolphin
> >
> > What am I running?:
> > I am using the latest Cygwin binaries as installed over the 
> internet 
> > on a clean install. I am using the last Xfree release 4.1.0 having 
> > followed the installation instructions to the letter. I 
> have checked 
> > for multiple cygwin DLL's and to my horror I found one 
> installed with 
> > Iona's Orbix product. I removed this file but the problems 
> persist. I 
> > have cleanly installed on about 5 different NT boxes and they all 
> > suffer the same problems. I can logon with any account using
> > OpenWindows with no problems at all.
> >
> > Further findings:
> > I have now found another interesting thing: I can now logon 
> with CDE 
> > with my user account and everything works OK (apart from 
> the periodic 
> > crashes - could have been the old cygwin
> > dll) but if I logon with any other user accounts XWin 
> terminates just 
> > as the login is completing.
> >
> > What next?:
> > You are quite correct that the Solaris installation would 
> appear to be 
> > the chief suspect (SPARC version, not Intel) although Exceed isn't 
> > having any problems. It is a pretty standard install but there are 
> > obviously lots of variables. I will find time to compile a debug 
> > version and run it through GDB to try and get you some useful 
> > information.
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu> on 09/08/2001 17:07:05
> >
> > To:   Oliver S Dungey/FSG/CSC@CSC, "cygx" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> > cc:
> > Subject:  RE: CDE Hangs on login with Xfree
> >
> >
> > Oliver,
> >
> > Well, I downloaded Solaris 8.0 for Intel and installed it 
> on one of my 
> > computers.  I created a new user and logged in via XDMCP.  So far, 
> > everything has worked fine; Cygwin/XFree86 did not hang on 
> login.  The 
> > User Registration program worked fine and did not cause any 
> crashes or 
> > hangs.  I have clicked the Options menu in dtterm with no adverse 
> > effect.
> >
> > > I don't really know who's bugs these are but they should 
> not really 
> > > cause a crash in Xfree, maybe some warnings but not a 
> full on crash.
> >
> > The answer to that question is simple: they are your bugs. 
> You are the 
> > only one that has encountered them, so you own them.  I don't know 
> > that these are bugs, rather, there is likely something else 
> going on 
> > with your systems. For example, you might have more than 
> one copy of 
> > cygwin1.dll on your system, you may have mixed and matched the
> > Cygwin/XFree86 binaries, or you may have a really strange
> > Solaris configuration.  In any case, we can't help you until
> > you figure out what is going on.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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