My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch. I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch. My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat. I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there. I built my own shortcut to start xwin "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe". That seems to start up the server just fine. However, when I click on "Applications->xterm", nothing happens. I started up a normal cygwin window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0". This gives me the following:
bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0 Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found bash-3.2$ I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix the issue. I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like "/bin". I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it). When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment. I'm thinking maybe some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm not finding any fonts. bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data TERM=cygwin PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS USERDOMAIN=CISCO OS=Windows_NT ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users !::=::\ TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip USERNAME=rymcdowe PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/ FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO PWD=/usr/bin SYSTEMDRIVE=C: USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 !C:=C:\cygwin\bin SHLVL=1 HOME=/home/rymcdowe USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1 HOMEDRIVE=C: PROMPT=$P$G COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2 VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection SESSIONNAME=Console COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP _=/bin/printenv Anybody have any ideas? ---------------------------- Ryan McDowell Systems Engineer Cisco Systems, Inc (W) +1 703.484.0040 (M) +1 703.201.5742 PGP Fingerprint: EED9 192F 9F45 FAE4 F6A3 8764 FEE1 299D 1B62 A361 ---------------------------- -- 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/