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Re: Cannot Start X
On 8/7/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> Marco Schuler wrote:
> > On 8/7/07, Holger Krull wrote:
> >> Marco Schuler schrieb:
> >>> On 8/7/07, Holger Krull <xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Why is everything mounted in textmode?
> >>> Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is
> >>> there any problem about this?
> >> Well, usually it is not what cygwin does. I don't know if it does any paticular harm, but there is no reason to have / mounted textmode.
> >
> > It seems as this is default from mount. man mount sais: "By default,
> > mounts are in text mode"
>
>
> The mode of the mounts created by "setup.exe" depend on what you specify
> for the "Default text file type" during installation. "Unix" (i.e. binary)
> is the default. Like all defaults, your best bet is to stick with them
> unless you have a need for something else and understand the implications.
>
> If you'd prefer to change back to binary mounts now, you can either re-run
> "setup.exe" and respecify your mount points as "Unix" or you can force a
> remount of all mount points as binary with the following:
>
> mount -m >/tmp/mounts
> edit '/tmp/mounts' and change all '-t's to '-b's
> save your edits
> chmod +x /tmp/mounts
> /tmp/mounts
>
> You will, of course, have to run through the file-system and change any
> scripts you have from text to binary (with 'd2u') for those to work for
> you again. If you're not too far into your installation configuration,
> you may find it easier to start to remove what you have and reinstall.
>
I installed cygwin again using UNIX mounts. X works now :-)
Thank you both for your help!
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Regards,
Marco
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