I have the same problem. I reviewed the "startxwin" man page with no luck. Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Thanks! Atul Paul Loewenstein wrote: > > See startxwin(.exe) man page. Run startxwin from a login shell. > > Paul > > Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) wrote: >> Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation >> scripts :( >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) >> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM >> To: '[email protected]' >> Subject: RE: Cannot start xterm >> >> 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/ >> >> > > > > -- > 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/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/RE%3A-Cannot-start-xterm-tp27067554p28686210.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
