[Kde-nonlinux] KDE on Cygwin on external harddrive

[Ralf Habacker]

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Carmil 1 schrieb:

> I installed Cygwin (1.5.16) +KDE on an external USB harddrive on
> WindowsXP sp2.
>
>
> The drive was mounted to a path (instead of a drive-letter) on the
> local NTFS C: drive so C:\CygwinHD is actually the extrenal drive.
> this can be configured in the "disk management" here- START
> "%SystemRoot%\System32\mmc.exe"
> "%SystemRoot%\System32\compmgmt.msc"
>
> The installation was using Cygwin setup.exe tool, and went
> smoothly.
>
> The terminal was running the bash with no apparent problems.
>
> I did `rebaseall` as explaind in the FAQ
> http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php and restarted the
> computer (just to be on the safe side). now i tried to `startx &`
> On the very first time it was asking me for locale info (language
> and country) - as expected. But it hanged at the stage of
> 'initializing system services' and after a minute the splash screen
> disappeared and i saw only the blue screen of the XWin. For some
> unknown reason it complained that the 'dcopserver' service is
> already running, while i'm positively sure that it was not running
> before i launched the `startx` (i check in the TASKMGR.EXE, and
> looked that the file /home/myusername/.DCOPserver_xxxxxxxx__0 was
> not existing).
>
> When i ran the XWin alone and then ran `kwrite` (for example) it
> ran ok. but the KDE Desktop itself would not run.
>
>
> I changed the mount point of the external harddisk to be a normal
> drive-letter (instead of path), and fixed the registry keys
> accordingly (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus
> Solutions\Cygwin) and tried again, it was now running perfectly.
>
>
> FYI

Do you have tried
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php#debug_kde3
Regards
Ralf

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