the application failed to start because a needed componet is missing

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: c.n.wilson@att.net [ mailto:c.n.wilson@att.net ]
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:37 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: the application failed to start because a needed componet is
> missing
> 
> Hello i have looked through the message boards but did not notice a
> specific answer to my problem so here goes]
> 
> when installing xfree everything went fine i did not notice any error
> messages and nothing seemed to have gone wrong well when i enter the
> XWin.exe -screen 0 800x600x16
> command  it says command not found ( yes im in the right dir) so then
> i tried to open the startxwin.bat from a command console and this is
> the error i get from a pop up error message (nothing wrote to the
> console)
> 
>  " The application failed to start because a needed componet was not
> found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem"
> 
> so then i started up cygwin again and gave this command
> cd /usr/X11R6/bin then the dir command XWin.exe does not even list the
> output but when i look in the folder with windows explorer it is in
> there i can see it but it does not say its there  when i give the dir
> command and xwindows will not intialize so what do i do now ??
> windows 2000 p3 668mghrz  nvidia tnt2 128mb ram   if any of the above
> info helps  . . .


I am not sure what is going on.  If you follow the instructions as mentioned
in User's Guide you should be up and running.

By the way, do you have some sort of weird Administrative privileges set on
your Windows 2000.  That is the only reason I can think of... in those kinds
of cases Windows loves to give you goofy error messages...
Try logining in as Administrator and see if you can execute using Admin
account.  If that works then you need to investigate the privileges issue at
your workstation.

Suhaib