updating to latest cygwin broke X

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Stephen More wrote:

> I have been running cygwin with xorg 6.7.0 and it has been flawless.
> Tonight I updated cygwin with all the latest packages. The update
> displayed error: "mfw.exe Unable to Locate DLL". But at the end it
> said it completed successfully. So I tried startxwin.bat... failed
> could not find XWin. So I manually untared xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.1.0-5. I
> tried again this time it could not find cygX11-6.dll so I untarred
> xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.1.0-1.tar. Still reports the same error. At this
> point I moved C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin.broke and tried to a fresh
> install. I still got the same error "could not find cygX11-6.dll".
> Is the current install of X broken ? How can I get my X working again,
> trying to uninstall xorg 6.8 seems almost impossible using the setup
> program.

What does cygcheck.exe /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe report?

Have you tried selecting "reinstall" for the packages in setup.exe?

bye
	ago
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