From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1277 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2010 01:49:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 1267 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2010 01:49:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp112.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO smtp112.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (209.191.68.77) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:49:08 +0000 Received: (qmail 80074 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2010 01:49:06 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (reply-to-list-only-lh-x@108.7.36.119 with plain) by smtp112.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 2010 18:49:06 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C2AA292.6070300@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:49:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin X\)" Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly References: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A89023617C1@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> <4C2A7632.3040003@cygwin.com> <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361860@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> In-Reply-To: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361860@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00058.txt.bz2 On 6/29/2010 6:56 PM, Bradley, Mike wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@... [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@...] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X) >> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:40 PM >> To: cygwin-xfree@... >> Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly Also, there's nothing to be gained (and plenty to be lost) by including unneeded headers in your reply. Please consider removing them in future correspondences with the list. >> Remove the DISPLAY setting. Update your installation (your cygwin package >> is out-of-date). You also have a couple of orphaned installations of >> Cygwin. Make sure those are all cleaned up/out. >> > Hi, > > In the past I have not found a good way to "remember" which packages where > installed (e.g. non-default packages). Is there a file/way to run setup.exe > so that a specified set of packages are installed? Not surprisingly, Chris got this right on the nose. It would be ludicrous for me to embellish. :-) > (I have several times just run setup.exe, and it does seem to update some > packages, but as you state, it is not completely clean) Actually, that's not what I meant at all. Your cygcheck output showed that you had, at one time, installed Cygwin to C:\cygwin and C:\cygwin\cygdrive, both of which are now "ORPHANED", meaning that at least some (could be all) of the installation is now missing. You should make sure that the entire installation has been deleted in both places. Once that is true, you should run 'cygcheck --delete-orphaned-installation-keys' so that cygcheck will not report those directories anymore. This is something completely different from 'setup.exe' and its installation process. 'setup.exe' knows what it has installed and where and will maintain those packages (updating them as required and requested) whenever you run it. It cannot, however, maintain an installation if it has been removed or manipulated by other tools, which is what seems to have happened to your two orphaned installations. So you need to finish cleaning these up as I described above. It may simply be a bookkeeping exercise or it might be more than that. But it's worth checking out. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/