From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16875 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2010 09:54:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 16867 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Mar 2010 09:54:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtprelay04.ispgateway.de (HELO smtprelay04.ispgateway.de) (80.67.31.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:54:28 +0000 Received: from [80.67.16.112] (helo=localhost) by smtprelay04.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1NsYuP-0003Ps-4t for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:54:25 +0100 Received: from pc51997.klinik.uni-regensburg.de (pc51997.klinik.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.174.149]) by webmail.df.eu (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:54:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20100319105425.45455xuj4rc1xl2s@webmail.df.eu> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:54:00 -0000 From: Markus Hoenicka To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: problems starting xterm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: domainFACTORY X-Df-Sender: 472582 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 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 -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/