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Re: X startup failure
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:27:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: X startup failure
- References: <2ED602334F87F94CB1CA268F9608C1946E9E94@moonraker.campus.ncl.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:19:49PM -0000, Arijit Mukherjee wrote:
>Hi
>
>I just installed a fresh version of Cygwin on my WinXP machine. But I am
>not able to use the X11 utilities. Attemtping to execute "startxwin.bat"
>results in an error which says "Unable to find XWin", although the path
>is properly set. The reason is, XWin is not at all installed, although I
>have tried to reinstall several times. The packages are downloaded on
>the local disk, but they never get copied to /usr/X11/bin. I tried to
>copy the files manually, but even that didn't work.
>
>Can anyone give me a clue why this is not working?
There was a problem with some of the xorg packages (caused by me).
Try installing from another mirror. http://mirrors.rcn.net/ is up-to-date.