problems starting xterm

[Jon TURNEY]

On 19/03/2010 09:54, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> I've set up Cygwin 1.7.1 lately, along with X and some applications. The
> X server works ok and claims to be "Version 1.7.5 Build Date:
> 2010-02-05". I can run Emacs as an X application without hassles.
> However, when I start the X server, or when I try to run xterm from the
> X server systray icon, xterm apparently fails to find a shell to run, so
> it terminates (no pun intended) after a couple of seconds:
>
> xterm: Could not exec 4.90.2.20040617: No such file or directory

Google suggests '4.90.2.20040617' is a novell netware client version.

So, erm... yeah.

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