xterm does not find cygX11-6.dll

[Charli Li]

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> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Santiago Serebrinsky
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 7:02 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: xterm does not find cygX11-6.dll
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I performed an upgrade to cygwin while inadvertently having an xterm
> open. After that, when launching xterm I get the following message in a
> dialog window:
>
> This application has failed to start because cygX11-6.dll was not found.
> Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>
> I have googled the message, and I found some links that pointed to the
> presence of the adequate directory in the path, and to the
> re-installation of a couple of packages. The links that I found, with
> the suggestions they give, the actions that I took, and the outcome
> (none fixing the problem) are listed below.
>
> I do not know how to get the cygwin or x version. From the file
> cygcheck.out (see below and the attachment), I guess that they are
>
> xorg -> 6.8.2.0
> cygwin -> 1.5.9-4
> xterm -> 202-1
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> http://cygwin.com/problems.html  suggests:
>
> $ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out
>
> A text terminal works fine. There, I have executed the command above.
> The output file is attached. In addition, there was the following output
> line on the screen (I guess it went to stderr)
>
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive F: failed: 2
>
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> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html   and
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CygwinXTroubleShooting#head-76c228
7a9b1d02f8ea57be05f5052e7fb1d6a7e3
> suggest:
>
> "8.7. cygX11-6.dll not found after installation or upgrade
> Reinstall the xorg-x11-bin-dlls package. Make sure not to reinstall any
> XFree-* packages.
> Check if /usr/X11R6/bin/cygX11-6.dll does exist.
> Check if $PATH contains /usr/X11R6/bin. "
>
> I have reinstalled xorg-x11-bin-dlls. I did not reinstall any XFree
> package. Actually,
>
> $ grep -i xfree cygcheck.out
> XFree86-lib-compat      4.3.0-2
>
> The file  C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/cygX11-6.dll  exists
>
>  From the contents of   C:\cygwin\etc\profile.d\00xorg-x11-base.sh  (see
> attachment) I guess that the path should contain  /usr/X11R6/bin
> I actually do not know how to check this, since I can't open a graphic
> terminal. In a text terminal,
>
> $ printenv.exe $PATH
>
> gives no output (no PATH set).
>
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> http://geni.ath.cx/wiki_grass.html  suggests:
>
> # Run startxwin.bat.
> # Go to c:\cygwin in IE.
> # Run cygwin.bat. Now you have a cygwin shell.
> # Type "DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 xterm&<ENTER>" in the cygwin shell. xterm
> should start.
>
> This did not work either
>
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> --------------------------------
> I have reinstalled
>
> xorg-x11-base           6.8.2.0-1
> xorg-x11-bin            6.8.2.0-1
> xorg-x11-bin-lndir      6.8.2.0-1
>
> and it did not work
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> --------------------------------
>
> Any clue? Perhaps trying to execute other programs, or having access to
> the path set after executing the x scripts, may give a better idea.
>
> Thanks
>
> Santiago
>
>
>

Try setting the paths BEFORE you even try to execute XWin.exe.  That just
means that you might have to tweak startxwin.* in order to get it to work
sucessfully.  I understand that the DLLs are installed in /usr/bin and
/usr/X11R6/bin, so please check the PATH in startxwin.bat in Notepad to see
if C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin is in your path, and search for /usr/X11R6/bin in
an editor (emacs, vim)

Charli
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