RE: Cygwin/x window no longer appears

["Timares, Brian (Patriot)" <Brian dot Timares at va dot gov>]

On Friday, November 13, 2009 Csaba Raduly wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Olivia Cheronet wrote:
>> I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
>> Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in
the 
>> Cygwin bash shell. Everything seemed to be working fine. However, it
has 
>> now stopped working...
>> When I type "startxwin.bat" in the Cygwin shell, the normal
>> startxwin.bat - starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
>> appears. Yet, the window which used to appear no longer does. I am
really 
>> not too sure what to do about this, given that I have not
(consciously!) 
>> modified anything.
>> I have installed Cygwin (and Cygwin/x) very recently, and have tried
to 
>> reinstall the latter using Cygwin's setup.exe, but to no effect.

Me too.  I've removed all of Cygwin 1.7 and reinstalled build 2009-11-11

(Nov 17, getting the 1.2.0-1 version of xinit) and get the following 
processes (after the install, double-clicking the XWin Server icon,
before 
any reboot):
C:\cygwin\bin>ps
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     4712       1    4712       4712  con 180490 17:33:39 /usr/bin/bash
     4876    4712    4712       1020  con 180490 17:33:40 
/usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0
     4972       1    4972       1188  con 180490 08:15:31 /usr/bin/XWin
     1044       1    1044       1044  con 180490 08:19:18 /usr/bin/ps

When I went to reboot, I got a message stating Cygwin Setup Post-Install
Script was still running.  The processes I had were few and included
gtk-query-immodules-2.0.exe and bash.exe.  Eventually I just forced it
to restart.

>I assume it's the terminal window (xterm) that does not show up.

Yes.

>Does the X server start up? Check if the little X in the system tray
>is present, and stays when you put the mouse over it . If not, you

Yes.

>Another test is to start a cmd.exe and run startxwin.bat from there.
>Are there any error messages from running startxwin.bat ?
>Does startxwin.bat really try to start the xterm? Maybe it got

After restarting, to get rid of PID 4876, I tried this.  It ran,
returned
to the prompt after a couple seconds.  No window appeared.  No errors
(e.g. the Missing charsets) appeared.

>commented out (that's what I do with my startxwin)

No.  Brand new install, I checked the startxwin.bat, it isn't commented
out.  I had tried the 'install extra fonts' work-around, that didn't 
help. I'm not sure what to try next, or if it is a bug and I should go
back to 1.5 for now.

cygcheck_bt.out attached.


Brian

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