The first problem I found is that you must leave SYSTEMROOT set to c:\windows, not to /c/windows or /cygdrive/c/windows. This allowed ping to work.
However, I'm still having X issues (but it got farther): ------------------------------------- bash> startxwin Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.10.3.0 OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 [Windows NT 5.1 build 2600] (Win32) Package: version 1.10.3-1 built 2011-07-19 XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/GP3JDP1-E6410:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information LoadPreferences: /home/jth180/.XWinrc not found LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed, allowing ShadowDD winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT, allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f winTaskbarInit - Could not get SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow address winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 2880 height: 900 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () Screen 0 added at virtual desktop coordinate (0,0). winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! 2 [main] X 7304 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 giving up. startxwin: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error. ------------------------------------- Ideas? -- 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/
