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 <[email protected]> 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/
