X Server shortcut removed from start menu?

[Ryan Johnson]

On 19/10/2011 7:43 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 19:58, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> I recently upgraded to the latest cygwin/x and my start menu no longer
>> contains a shortcut to start the x-server -- the thing there is a 
>> shortcut for
>> xterm. Is there a packaging change that I wasn't aware of or is this 
>> a bug?
>
> This should not have changed.  Those start menu links should have been 
> created when the xinit package is installed, by the 
> /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh script.  You might want to take a look at 
> /var/log/setup.log and see if that script ran successfully.
>
Heh. The postinstall/xinit.sh script has  failed to run every time I've 
run setup.exe in the last 9 months.
> 2011/10/18 14:57:13 Running preremove script for  X-start-menu-icons
> 2011/10/18 14:57:13 running: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> /etc/preremove/X-start-menu-icons.sh
> 2011/10/18 14:57:14 Uninstalling X-start-menu-icons
> 2011/10/18 14:57:14 Extracting from 
> file://C:\Users\Ryan\Downloads\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca%2fcygwin%2f/release/X11/X-start-menu-icons/X-start-menu-icons-1.0.4-1.tar.bz2
> 2011/10/18 14:57:14 Changing gid back to original
> 2011/10/18 14:57:14 running: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> /etc/postinstall/X-start-menu-icons.sh
> 2011/10/18 14:57:17 running: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh
> 2011/10/18 14:57:17 abnormal exit: exit code=3

I guess something different than usual went wrong? What's the best way 
to debug it?

Ryan


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