Trying to downgrade to 1.5 with the legacy installer from http://www.cygwin.com/win-9x.html (which would never terminate) and then reinstalling after a reboot with the latest installer fixed the problem.
Andrew On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Andrew Senior <a...@andrewsenior.com> wrote: > Getting the latest cygwin installer (2.677) didn't seem to help with > any of my problems. > Is there somewhere other than /var/log/Xwin.0.log that I can see some > logs for startxwin? I don't see any command line arguments for > startxwin that might give me verbose output. > > Andrew > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Senior <a...@andrewsenior.com> wrote: >> I've had cygwin installed for a year on my Thinkpad T61, running >> Windows XP professional, and just ran the latest setup.exe from >> cygwin.com. >> At installation time there were some complaints about in use files, >> though I wasn't to my knowledge running any cygwin processes at the >> time. >> I now can't run X with startxwin.exe (no process appears, no icon in >> the system tray, clients won't start) >> It (and startx, xinit, Xwin :0) gives me no logging on the console >> (an rxvt window). >> No /var/log/Xwin.0.log is written, nor anywhere else I can see in /var/log >> I've tried reinstalling all the X & base packages I can find, or >> uninstalling and reinstalling a few (including xinit and xorg-server). >> I've also rebooted several times since first trying this. >> The start menu icons give me no feedback either, except "idle" which >> says "Error: could not start C:\Cygwin\bin\idle -display >> 127.0.0.1:0.0" >> running xterm, xeyes on the command line gives no error message either. >> Does anyone have any suggestions please? >> (One odd thing I notice with 1.7 is that when starting rxvt -e >> /usr/bin/bash -login it puts me in /bin, whereas it used to put me in >> my home directory. ~ and $HOME both correctly resolve to c:/aws which >> is in fstab as /home/aws, as well as listed if I type "mount". This >> happened without running /bin/copy-user-registry-fstab, and that >> didn't put anything in /etc/fstab.d/. >> Another is that four packages are always scheduled to be installed (as >> New) in "partial" view of setup.exe : glib, gtk+, imlib, tetex, but >> never seem to be installed, nor are there any failure messages.) >> Thanks, >> Andrew >> I attach a cygcheck output, though I notice various things that look >> like errors in it: >> I was using http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/cygwin/ as my mirror, but >> setup.exe complained it wasn't an official mirror, so the recent >> installation was from anl.gov, and I tried pointing to waterloo.edu >> more recently. >> Also, it complains that things are hidden in my path by directories, >> e.g. perl is hidden by a directory named perl. 'which perl' gives the >> location of the binary. >> > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/