Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-04-28 Thread Holger Krull
Katherine J Merrill schrieb: > Started poking around. Decided to delete and reinstall everything. > Worked once, then would just get hung again when I "startx". Went to Did you use the same user on first and second attempt? > I get these two errors from the log: > > could not init font path e

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-28 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Katherine J Merrill wrote: > Installed cygwin, etc a couple of years ago with using windows xp. It > worked fine. Over Christmas break, made a clean sweep of the harddrive > and reinstalled cygwin-x. Ran it once, worked fine. Closed it and > could not get it to open. Cygw

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-26 Thread J. David Boyd
"Ken Brown" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/26/2007 8:13 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: Of course, now that I've run rebaseall to get my X apps working okay, emacs no longer starts... You have to reinstall libncurses7 to get emacs back. See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/26/2007 8:13 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: Of course, now that I've run rebaseall to get my X apps working okay, emacs no longer starts... You have to reinstall libncurses7 to get emacs back. See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00540.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-26 Thread J. David Boyd
"Jason" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] J. David Boyd wrote: Have you tried rebaseall? I had to do that to get consistent results... Actually, I did that 2 days ago to fix another problem with fork, and this issue seems to have disappeared again. Was just going to post that when I s

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-25 Thread Jason
J. David Boyd wrote: > Have you tried rebaseall? I had to do that to get consistent results... Actually, I did that 2 days ago to fix another problem with fork, and this issue seems to have disappeared again. Was just going to post that when I saw this message :) So, thanks! That seems to have b

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-23 Thread J. David Boyd
Have you tried rebaseall? I had to do that to get consistent results... Dave - Original Message - From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree To: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:06 PM Subject: Re: can't startup startx in cygwin Kath

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-22 Thread Jason
Katherine J Merrill wrote: > It processes a couple more lines after this and just sits there. Just curious, do you get the X icon in the task bar? I've been having this problem lately since I re-installed a couple of weeks ago. I thought I had a fix, but it turned out to be a red herring as my pr

can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-22 Thread Katherine J Merrill
Installed cygwin, etc a couple of years ago with using windows xp. It worked fine. Over Christmas break, made a clean sweep of the harddrive and reinstalled cygwin-x. Ran it once, worked fine. Closed it and could not get it to open. Cygwin was fine. "startx" just got hung. Started po