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Surely someone has already posted a solution to my problem and I've been google searching for it and just cannot find it. The Cygwin setup.exe program has correctly setup the home directory for my windows admin account called heintze-local. Startx for XWindows works! However, when I log out and log into the non-admin account heintze, startx does not work. It tries to create some files in the /cygdrive/h directory and this does not work well because there is no such drive. When I type cd ~/ when logged into the heintze-local account, it correctly goes the /home/heintze- local directory. When I type cd ~/ when logged into the heintze account, it incorrectly goes to the /cygdrive/h directory. When I edit /etc/passwd I see there is no entry for the heintze account but there is an entry for heintze-local. I think the fix should be mkpasswd -l -d /etc/passwd but this says (when run from the heintze account) mkpasswd (739): [1212] The format of the specified domain name is invalid. Here is what uname says. hein...@us-sea-l3ber9k ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 US-SEA-L3BER9K 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin Should I be using the -d option? Maybe not. OK, I'll try it without! No luck. It still does not see the heintze account. So I use vi to edit /etc/passwd and duplicate the heintze-local entry and remove the -local . I got a little further. I get a dialog box that says "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will not exit. Please open /var/log/XWin.%s.log for more information.." Can someone help me? Thanks, Siegfried OK, here are the contents of /var/log/XWin.0.log: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090222) Contact: cygwin-xf...@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /home/heintze-local/.serverauth.1464 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1440 h 900 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (--) 8 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection - Clipboard is not enabled, returning. winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress -- 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
