Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
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 element usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/100dpi > and > could not init font path element usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/CID These are not really errors, just messages about not existing fonts. I assume almost everyone has these. Send the output of cygcheck -s and the complete Xwin.log please. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
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. Cygwin was fine. "startx" just got hung. > Started poking around. Decided to delete and reinstall everything. > Worked once, then would just get hung again when I "startx". Went to > the FAQs and found 8.4/8.5. > > I get these two errors from the log: > > could not init font path element usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/100dpi > and > could not init font path element usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/CID > > It processes a couple more lines after this and just sits there. > > On trying to follow the 8.4 instructions when I run > umount/usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts, it comes back and says that the file is > not found. > > Also, there are no instructions for the other /CID problem. > > How do I fix this? The two messages you listed above are just warnings and were not the cause of the hang. Please search the list archives and the FAQ for the possible causes of XWin hang. As others mentioned, rebaseall may help, as may uninstalling some of the "dodgy apps" that are buggy enough to cause Cygwin to behave badly. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
"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/msg00540.html Ken Thanks, that worked just fine. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
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://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
"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 saw this message :) So, thanks! That seems to have been the answer. Jason Of course, now that I've run rebaseall to get my X apps working okay, emacs no longer starts... Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
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 been the answer. Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
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 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 problem came back today... Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't startup startx in cygwin
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 problem came back today... Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
