Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7

[Tim Prince]

On 2/3/10 12:43 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 23/01/2010 15:37, Jeff Spirko wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Andrew 
>>>>> Senior<aws@andrewsenior.com>  wrote:
>>>>> I've had cygwin installed for a year on my Thinkpad T61, running
>>>>> Windows XP professional, and just ran the latest setup.exe from
>>>>> cygwin.com.
>>>>> I now can't run X with startxwin.exe (no process appears, no icon in
>>>>> the system tray, clients won't start)
>>>>> No /var/log/Xwin.0.log is written, nor anywhere else I can see in 
>>>>> /var/log
>
> I think the original poster had a broken installation, there's no 
> other reason for it to get fixed by a reinstall :-)
Maybe there was a reboot in there somewhere.  On my XP32 on T61 
(configuration determined by my employer) it was frequently necessary 
and sufficient to reboot before running startxwin.  Now I have to take 
it back as it's failing to perform the first mount during Windows boot.



-- 
Tim Prince


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