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From: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: problems starting xterm
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319105425.45455xuj4rc1xl2s@webmail.df.eu> (raw)

Hi,

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

I have plenty of shells installed (bash, ash, dash), and they work ok  
in MinTTY. I'm afraid I'm missing some simple but important setting  
somewhere. Any ideas?

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19  9:54 Markus Hoenicka [this message]
2010-03-19 13:06 ` Reid Thompson
2010-03-19 13:09   ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 13:55     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-03-19 14:06       ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 15:40         ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 15:46           ` Ken Brown
2010-03-19 21:13             ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-21 13:54             ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 16:35 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-03-19 21:12   ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-21 14:14     ` Andy Koppe

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