Cannot start xterm

[Paul Loewenstein]

See startxwin(.exe) man page.  Run startxwin from a login shell.

Paul

Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) wrote:
> Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation scripts :(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) 
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: Cannot start xterm
>
> My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.  I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.  My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat.  I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there.  I built my own shortcut to start xwin "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe".  That seems to start up the server just fine.  However, when I click on "Applications->xterm", nothing happens.  I started up a normal cygwin window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0".  This gives me the following:
>
> bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Error: Aborting: no font found
> bash-3.2$
>
> I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix the issue.
>
> I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like "/bin".  I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it).
>
> When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment.  I'm thinking maybe some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm not finding any fonts.
>
> bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv
> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
> APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data
> TERM=cygwin
> PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
> WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
> USERDOMAIN=CISCO
> OS=Windows_NT
> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
> !::=::\
> TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
> DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
> COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
> USERNAME=rymcdowe
> PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
> PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/
> FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
> PWD=/usr/bin
> SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
> USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
> LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W
> PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
> !C:=C:\cygwin\bin
> SHLVL=1
> HOME=/home/rymcdowe
> USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM
> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> PROMPT=$P$G
> COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
> TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
> SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
> PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c
> CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
> PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
> VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
> SESSIONNAME=Console
> COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP
> _=/bin/printenv
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
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