Can start xeyes but not xclock

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Michael Defoin Platel wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed a cygwin/x environment on a mahcine with XP running.
> 
> Everything seems to be okay. The X server starts smoothly and I can
> run some programs such as xeyes, xemacs or display.
> However  some others such as xterm, xclock, xload fail without any
> error message.
> 
> For example:
> 
>> xterm
> 
>> echo $?
> 53
> 
> The TERM variable is set to cygwin and DISPLAY to localhost:0.0
> 
> Does anybody get what's going on ?

# net helpmsg 53

The network path was not found.

This means one of the DLLs the failing application needs can't be found.
'cygcheck xterm' will give you a list of DLLs required and complain about
those that are missing.  Make sure the packages with the missing DLLs are
are installed.  Repeat for other apps.

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