From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23987 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2010 14:43:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 23978 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2010 14:43:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-48-4.bstnma.east.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.48.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:43:53 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F3B13C061 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:43:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id A5AC42B352; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:43:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:43:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly Message-ID: <20100630144351.GC20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A89023617C1@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <4C2A7632.3040003@cygwin.com> <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361860@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <4C2AA292.6070300@cygwin.com> <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361878@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <20100630141036.GA20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361899@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361899@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2010-06/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:36:05AM -0600, Bradley, Mike wrote: >cgf wrote: >>So, after being told that Cygwin remembers your previous installation >>and to just run setup.exe, you removed your previous installation and >>are surprised that Cygwin doesn't remember it. > >What I did was re-run setup.exe. XWin would still not startup. Then I >Deleted the cygwin install (except for the package directory). >Setup.exe Did not recall/remember/read the package directory, it did a >default install. I guess what you're not getting is that the list of installed packages is located within the cygwin installation itself. If you wipe out then setup.exe won't know what's installed. >The good news is XWin works now. The bad news is I must >remember/find/set the >Various packages I need in addition to the default. > >I'm confused as to why the notion of setup.exe to leave a >bread-crumb-trail of what was installed for-the-purpose-of driving a >subsequent installation is such a controversial issue.... It's not controversial since setup.exe already does that. You just chose to wipe out the record of what's installed. If you wanted to just reinstall X you could have just chosen "Reinstall" and not gone through the pain of wiping out everything. cgf -- 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/