On 18 February 2010 21:22, Mike Ayers <mike_ay...@tvworks.com> wrote: > My wild guess is that you have a typo in .bashrc which prevents all > the startup happening. in your system tray launched window, make sure you > are in your home directory, then run '. .bashrc' (note that first period!) > and see if there are any error messages. You can also edit .bashrc and put > 'set -x' as the first line for verbose output.
I added the 'set -x' to the first line of my .bashrc file and then ran '. .bashrc' and this is the output > ++ set -x > ++ unset TMP > ++ unset TEMP > ++ alias 'df=df -h' > ++ alias 'du=du -h' > ++ alias 'grep=grep --color' > ++ alias 'ls=ls -h --color=auto' > ++ alias 'll=ls -l' > ++ alias 'la=ls -A' > ++ alias 'l=ls -CF' > ++ alias 'vsim=explorer.exe $(cygpath -w > /cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32/modelsim.exe)' > ++ alias 'gimp=explorer.exe $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Program\ > Files/GIMP-2.0/bin/gimp-2.6.exe)' > ++ alias 'firefox=explorer.exe $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Program\ > Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe)' > ++ PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' Then I executed the short cut > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -ls -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 and this is the output: > ++ unset TEMP > ++ alias 'df=df -h' > ++ alias 'du=du -h' > ++ alias 'grep=grep --color' > ++ alias 'ls=ls -h --color=auto' > ++ alias 'll=ls -l' > ++ alias 'la=ls -A' > ++ alias 'l=ls -CF' > ++ alias 'vsim=explorer.exe $(cygpath -w > /cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32/modelsim.exe)' > ++ alias 'gimp=explorer.exe $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Program\ > Files/GIMP-2.0/bin/gimp-2.6.exe)' > ++ alias 'firefox=explorer.exe $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Program\ > Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe)' > ++ PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' > + '[' -d /home/craig/bin ']' > + PATH='/home/craig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/MiKTeX > 2.7/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio > Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32:/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Software/ant-1.7.1/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin' > + > PATH='/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Programming/scripts:/home/craig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/MiKTeX > 2.7/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio > Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32:/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Software/ant-1.7.1/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin' > + PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program > + Files/MiKTeX > 2.7/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Programming/scripts:/home/craig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/MiKTeX > 2.7/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio > Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32:/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Software/ant-1.7.1/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin > -bash: Files/MiKTeX: No such file or directory It looks like it is trying to set the path 3 times and the 3rd time is the one that is causing problems because its not using ' marks around the path parameter. However, here are the contents of my .bashrc file: > set -x > unset TMP > unset TEMP > alias df='df -h' > alias du='du -h' > alias grep='grep --color' > alias ls='ls -h --color=auto' > alias ll='ls -l' > alias la='ls -A' > alias l='ls -CF' > alias vsim='explorer.exe $(cygpath -w > /cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32/modelsim.exe)' > alias gimp='explorer.exe $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Program\ > Files/GIMP-2.0/bin/gimp-2.6.exe)' > alias firefox='explorer.exe $(cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ > Firefox/firefox.exe)' > PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' As you can see, I don't set the PATH variable! Weird. Craig -- 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/
