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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:50:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20140307214954.GA4187@aerie.jexium-island.net> (raw) In-Reply-To: <531A24A0.7010400@winfirst.com> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1670 bytes --] On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:57:20AM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: > I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a laptop PC. > On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the laptop, I > have the following problems: > > When I launch a shell window, I get the following error: > > Your group is currently "mkgroup". This indicates that neither your gid nor your pgsid is in /etc/group. (I don't know about this one) > Also, when I try to launch an XTerm, I get the following message in the XTerm window for > just a few seconds and then the window goes away: > > /cygdrive/c/Apps/cygwin/bin/xterm: Could not exec XTERM_SHELL=XTERM_SHELL=: No such file or directory yes, that's a bug which surfaced in #301, thought it was gone in #302, and _should_ be gone in #303 (from yesterday) > I'm starting the XWin Server using a shortcut with the following: > > C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\run.exe > /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c > "/usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -emulate3buttons -multiwindow -clipboard -swcursor" > > I'm starting the XTerm using a shortcut with the following: > > C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\run.exe > -p /usr/X11R6/bin xterm +tb -sb -sl 5000 -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls /bin/zsh -l I'd try putting "-e" before the "/bin/zsh", which moves it away from the bug noted. (actually, the trailing "-l" doesn't look right either) fwiw, when I compile #301, #302 and #303 for Cygwin, I don't see the bug. However, I was able to analyze it on Linux with valgrind... -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-07 21:50 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-03-07 19:57 Mark Hansen 2014-03-07 21:50 ` Thomas Dickey [this message] 2014-03-07 22:04 ` Mark Hansen 2014-03-07 22:12 ` Thomas Dickey 2014-03-07 23:37 ` Mark Hansen 2014-03-08 0:36 ` Thomas Dickey 2014-03-08 0:43 ` Mark Hansen 2014-03-07 22:00 ` Mark Hansen 2014-03-16 18:48 ` Mark Hansen
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