Help with startxwin.bat (I did read the FAQ)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
> Hi Yakov,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
> <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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>> Srinath Avadhanula wrote:
>>> I suddenly began getting the error message:
>>>
>>> A fatal error has occured and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open
>>> /tmp/XWin.log for more information. The trailing part of /tmp/XWin.log
>>> mentions the following:
>> Please upgrade to the latest xorg-server.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the reply. I did upgrade to the latest xorg-server. (It is
> now at 1.5.3-2). In fact, as I mentioned previously, I tried
> reinstalling all packages under the X11 category. However, this
> doesn't seem to fix things.
> 
> I have a suspicion that my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory is somehow
> corrupted. An "ls" there shows fewer directories that on another
> machine where this seems to work. On my (problem) machine:
> 
> $ ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
> app-defaults  lbxproxy   rstart  xdm    xkb      xsm
> fs            proxymngr  twm     xinit  xserver
> 
> Strangely, no fonts/ directory! On another machine which I use where X
> seems to be working fine, I see a whole bunch of other directories...

The current version doesn't have/use /usr/X11R6....  It uses just plain
/usr for X stuff now, along with a modular X installation.  See the
anouncements.

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