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From: Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Archai Valkryn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help, I can't get X started!
| The first problem I ran into was a username with a space in it. This
| is a single user machine, and logs me on as Archai Valkryn. That
| space wreaked havoc with pathnames. Eventually, I got it sorted out.
Who was wreaked havoc? bash? Cygwin? cygwin x? /etc/passwd?
/try getting *nix to recognize /home/Archai Valkryn as one path. Several
commands had trouble with it, among them ls, cd, and anything that tried to
use the $PATH variable. I changed my entries in /etc/passwd and renamed my
home dir with windows explorer.
| ...and turned to trying to get an X session up. It won't go. If I
| just try to run xwin.exe directly, it gives an error about not being
| able to find cygwinx.dll. I assume that's a bad thing.
cygwinx.dll?? Thats new, haven't seen it before.. I think?
| The install also didn't give me a startxwin.bat file--anywhere. What
next?
How did you install, which files did you grabb from where?
/I used the automated installer from Cygwin and installed from the internet.
Then I got the X files from one of the mirror sites (nas.nasa.gov, or
something very close to that) as per the Cyg/X user's guide. I have all of
those files, and I have only those files. Then I followed the directions in
the UG for the X install. And there is no startxwin.bat.
/There were a couple of things that made me wonder if the user's guide was
up to date, at least for the X install. Some things in the install script
were automated which, according to the User's Guide, should not have been.
Anyway.
/Andy
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