Problem starting X

[Hal Rottenberg]

> First, wrong mailing list.  Use cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, 

sorry, subscribed to the proper list now.

> > And yes, I checked, xwin is really not on my hard drive.
> 
> You mean you've looked for XWin.exe (that's the exact 
> capitalization and extension)?

Yup.  Just for the heck of it I also used case-insensitive Windows Find
Files utility.
 
> From a Cygwin bash prompt, run:
> cat /etc/setup/installed.db | grep XFree86
 
> The key package here is XFree86-xserv.  Please report your 
> version number for this package.

Nope it's not there.  I selected everything in the latest setup.exe
minus cyrillic and japanese fonts.  I don't know how to add or obtain a
package that's not in the list.  I also tried reinstalling the X
category and that didn't help.  I'm online to a mirror FTP site right
now browsing--haven't found the right package yet.

CYGWIN_NT-5.0 HALR9000 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown

$ cat /etc/setup/installed.db | grep XFree86
XFree86-base XFree86-base-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-bin XFree86-bin-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-doc XFree86-doc-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-etc XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-f100 XFree86-f100-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-fenc XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-fnts XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-fscl XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-fsrv XFree86-fsrv-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-html XFree86-html-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-lib XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-man XFree86-man-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-nest XFree86-nest-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-prog XFree86-prog-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-prt XFree86-prt-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-ps XFree86-ps-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-startup-scripts XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2 0
XFree86-vfb XFree86-vfb-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 0