updating to latest cygwin broke X

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:05:54PM -0500, Stephen More wrote:
>I have been running cygwin with xorg 6.7.0 and it has been flawless.
>Tonight I updated cygwin with all the latest packages. The update
>displayed error: "mfw.exe Unable to Locate DLL". But at the end it
>said it completed successfully. So I tried startxwin.bat... failed
>could not find XWin. So I manually untared xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.1.0-5. I
>tried again this time it could not find cygX11-6.dll so I untarred
>xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.1.0-1.tar. Still reports the same error. At this
>point I moved C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin.broke and tried to a fresh
>install. I still got the same error "could not find cygX11-6.dll".
>Is the current install of X broken ? How can I get my X working again,
>trying to uninstall xorg 6.8 seems almost impossible using the setup
>program.

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