RE: X apps won't start

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> I've tried the above from a bash shell and I'm still getting this error
> about application not intialising properly.
>

Have you not, by chance, also downloaded
cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar.bz2
and installed it?  If yes, this could be your cause of problem.

Suhaib

PS: Please reply to cygwin-xfree list only. Thanks



> I've detarred all the xfree*.tar.bz2 that I could find in the
> xc-4-binaries
> directory and their contents have all gone into /usr/X11R6.
>
> The error seems to imply that NT cannot handle programs such as xwin.exe
> etc. Could it be it can't find the right DLL, or could I be
> running short of
> some other resource? The rest of Cygwin seems to work OK.
>
> Also, I am logged in as a user with adminstrator rights, not as
> administrator directly. Could thuis make a difference?
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
> --
> Tony Arnold, Head of Science and Engineering Support Unit,
> University of Manchester. Tel: +44 161 275 6093, Fax: +44 161 275 6071
> E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold
> >
> > --Sms
> >
> > >
> > > I should add that I am running on Windows NT 4.0 SP6.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony.
> > > --
> > > Tony Arnold, Head of Science and Engineering Support Unit,
> > > University of Manchester. Tel: +44 161 275 6093, Fax: +44 161 275 6071
> > > E-mail: tony.arnold@man.ac.uk, Home: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold
> >