Re: Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7

[Andrew Senior <aws at andrewsenior dot com>]

Trying to downgrade to 1.5 with the legacy installer from
http://www.cygwin.com/win-9x.html (which would never terminate)
and then reinstalling after a reboot with the latest installer fixed
the problem.

Andrew

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Andrew Senior <aws@andrewsenior.com> wrote:
> 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 <aws@andrewsenior.com> 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.
>>
>

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