X Starts, Then Stops...

[Randall R Schulz]

Jeff,

You should note that "cygcheck -c <packageName>" does not issue a 
diagnostic when <packageName> is not the name of an installed package.

That suggests that you don't have the XFree86-xserv package installed or 
something went wrong with the installation or damaged it after it was 
installed.

Here's what my system reports:

% cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv
Cygwin Package Information
Package             Version
XFree86-xserv       4.2.0-10

Use -h to see help about each section


% cygcheck -c XFree86-nosuch
Cygwin Package Information
Package             Version

Use -h to see help about each section


It also seems that the "Use -h to see help about each section" message is 
spurious when a proper invocation is given.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:33 2002-08-23, Jeff M. wrote:
>Heh. Didn't quite work. I'm pretty sure I have the newest version as I just
>downloaded Cygwin yesterday... unless the server I got it from had an
>outdated version.
>
>When I tried running X again just now, I got the IO error 104 that is
>referred to in the FAQ, but that pointed me to the solution to another
>problem, and it didn't really tell me anything to do. There was a test
>binary of a new XWin.exe, so I downloaded that and replaced, but I still get
>the same thing: window flicks on and then off, and then since it's not
>there, all the other scripts fail to run.
>
>And here's what happened when I tried that command:
>
>Administrator@cp773274-a ~
>$ cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv
>Cygwin Package Information
>Package             Version
>
>Use -h to see help about each section
>
>Administrator@cp773274-a ~
>$
>
>Poo. Heh.
>
>- Jeff Meister