From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24402 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2014 00:43:53 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 24391 invoked by uid 89); 8 Mar 2014 00:43:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: stargate.mehconsulting.com Received: from stargate.mehconsulting.com (HELO stargate.mehconsulting.com) (65.78.188.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:43:51 +0000 Received: from [10.1.1.70] (Atlantis.mehconsulting.com [10.1.1.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by stargate.mehconsulting.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s280hms0011206 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 16:43:49 -0800 Message-ID: <531A67C6.9000502@Winfirst.Com> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:43:00 -0000 From: Mark Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation References: <531A24A0.7010400@winfirst.com> <20140307214954.GA4187@aerie.jexium-island.net> <531A424D.5000204@winfirst.com> <20140307221219.GA5538@aerie.jexium-island.net> <531A5840.605@winfirst.com> <20140308003615.GA8989@aerie.jexium-island.net> In-Reply-To: <20140308003615.GA8989@aerie.jexium-island.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-03/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 On 3/7/2014 4:36 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:37:36PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: >> >> Okay, this is very strange. As I said before, I have had no problems launching XTerms >> on my desktop running 64-bit Cygwin. I've launched several XTerms today with no problems >> ... until a few minutes ago. I went to launch an XTerm on my desktop PC and it began >> having the same problem I saw on the laptop (the error having to do with XTERM_SHELL). >> >> I edited the launcher shortcut to remove the "/bin/zsh -l" from the end of the command >> and it started working again. >> >> I didn't do anything to update the Cygwin product on my desktop during this time. > > xterm handles these three cases differently: > > xterm > xterm /bin/zsh > xterm -e /bin/zsh > > The bug that I mentioned is in the second case - not in the other two. Thanks. That was the bug I hit on my laptop. However, my desktop PC was working fine with "xterm ... /bin/zsh -l" and then suddenly, it started getting the same error. I made the same change to it as I did on my laptop PC and it worked, so I'm not stopped - I'm just wondering how my desktop PC was working then suddenly stopped working without altering any of the Cygwin software or settings. -- 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/