unable to start X server after upgrading cygwin from 1.5 to 1.7.5

[Jon TURNEY]

On 23/07/2010 13:42, philippe wrote:
> Jon TURNEY a écrit :
>> [...]
>>
>> You need to install 'font-adobe-dpi75'.
>
> from the cygwin setup.exe or manually?

Using setup.  But your setup needs to be running without errors first.

>> However, this should have been installed automatically as a dependency
>> of xterm.
>>
>> I wish you'd attached your cygcheck output.
>
> is this you need?
>
> [philippe@port78]/>
> $ cygcheck startx
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\startx
> C:\cygwin\bin\startxcygcheck: C:\cygwin\bin\startx is not a DLL: magic
> number 2123 (8483) '#!'

No

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>> You could try reinstalling that package, although I'd guess something
>> went wrong with installing package.  You should check /var/log/setup.log
>> for clues.
>
>
> I've several warning like "abnormal exit: exit code=128" in setup.log,
> the first one is :
>
> 2010/07/06 20:26:45 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
> /etc/postinstall/xorg-server.sh
> 2010/07/06 20:27:07 abnormal exit: exit code=128

This is the problem.  Reinstalling won't fix anything until you find out why 
this is happening and fix it.

> I reinstall X11 package now and tell you what's new before.

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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