RE: Cannot start xterm

RE: Cannot start xterm

[Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe)]

My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.  I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.  My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat.  I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there.  I built my own shortcut to start xwin "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe".  That seems to start up the server just fine.  However, when I click on "Applications->xterm", nothing happens.  I started up a normal cygwin window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0".  This gives me the following:

bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
bash-3.2$

I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix the issue.

I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like "/bin".  I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it).

When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment.  I'm thinking maybe some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm not finding any fonts.

bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data
TERM=cygwin
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
USERDOMAIN=CISCO
OS=Windows_NT
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
!::=::\
TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
USERNAME=rymcdowe
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
PWD=/usr/bin
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
!C:=C:\cygwin\bin
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/rymcdowe
USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
HOMEDRIVE=C:
PROMPT=$P$G
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
SESSIONNAME=Console
COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP
_=/bin/printenv

Anybody have any ideas?

----------------------------
Ryan McDowell
Systems Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc
(W) +1 703.484.0040
(M) +1 703.201.5742
PGP Fingerprint: EED9 192F 9F45 FAE4 F6A3 8764 FEE1 299D 1B62 A361 
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RE: Cannot start xterm

[Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe)]

Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation scripts :(

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM
To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
Subject: RE: Cannot start xterm

My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.  I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.  My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat.  I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there.  I built my own shortcut to start xwin "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe".  That seems to start up the server just fine.  However, when I click on "Applications->xterm", nothing happens.  I started up a normal cygwin window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0".  This gives me the following:

bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
bash-3.2$

I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix the issue.

I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like "/bin".  I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it).

When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment.  I'm thinking maybe some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm not finding any fonts.

bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data
TERM=cygwin
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
USERDOMAIN=CISCO
OS=Windows_NT
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
!::=::\
TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
USERNAME=rymcdowe
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
PWD=/usr/bin
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
!C:=C:\cygwin\bin
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/rymcdowe
USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
HOMEDRIVE=C:
PROMPT=$P$G
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
SESSIONNAME=Console
COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP
_=/bin/printenv

Anybody have any ideas?

----------------------------
Ryan McDowell
Systems Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc
(W) +1 703.484.0040
(M) +1 703.201.5742
PGP Fingerprint: EED9 192F 9F45 FAE4 F6A3 8764 FEE1 299D 1B62 A361 
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Re: Cannot start xterm

[Paul Loewenstein]

See startxwin(.exe) man page.  Run startxwin from a login shell.

Paul

Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) wrote:
> Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation scripts :(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) 
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: Cannot start xterm
>
> My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.  I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.  My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat.  I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there.  I built my own shortcut to start xwin "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe".  That seems to start up the server just fine.  However, when I click on "Applications->xterm", nothing happens.  I started up a normal cygwin window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0".  This gives me the following:
>
> bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Error: Aborting: no font found
> bash-3.2$
>
> I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix the issue.
>
> I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like "/bin".  I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it).
>
> When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment.  I'm thinking maybe some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm not finding any fonts.
>
> bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv
> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
> APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data
> TERM=cygwin
> PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
> WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
> USERDOMAIN=CISCO
> OS=Windows_NT
> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
> !::=::\
> TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
> DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
> COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
> USERNAME=rymcdowe
> PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
> PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/
> FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
> PWD=/usr/bin
> SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
> USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
> LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W
> PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
> !C:=C:\cygwin\bin
> SHLVL=1
> HOME=/home/rymcdowe
> USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM
> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> PROMPT=$P$G
> COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
> TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
> SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
> PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c
> CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
> PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
> VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
> SESSIONNAME=Console
> COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP
> _=/bin/printenv
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
>
> ----------------------------
> Ryan McDowell
> Systems Engineer
> Cisco Systems, Inc
> (W) +1 703.484.0040
> (M) +1 703.201.5742
> PGP Fingerprint: EED9 192F 9F45 FAE4 F6A3 8764 FEE1 299D 1B62 A361 
> ----------------------------
>
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Re: Cannot start xterm

[atewari]

I have the same problem.  I reviewed the "startxwin" man page with no luck. 
Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Atul


Paul Loewenstein wrote:
> 
> See startxwin(.exe) man page.  Run startxwin from a login shell.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) wrote:
>> Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation
>> scripts :(
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) 
>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM
>> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
>> Subject: RE: Cannot start xterm
>>
>> My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.  I then
>> installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.  My first issue was I could not find
>> startxwin.bat.  I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat,
>> but its not there.  I built my own shortcut to start xwin
>> "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe". 
>> That seems to start up the server just fine.  However, when I click on
>> "Applications->xterm", nothing happens.  I started up a normal cygwin
>> window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0". 
>> This gives me the following:
>>
>> bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type
>> FontStruct
>> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
>> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
>> Error: Aborting: no font found
>> bash-3.2$
>>
>> I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix
>> the issue.
>>
>> I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the
>> installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like
>> "/bin".  I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the
>> Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it).
>>
>> When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment.  I'm thinking maybe
>> some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm
>> not finding any fonts.
>>
>> bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv
>> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
>> APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data
>> TERM=cygwin
>> PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
>> WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
>> USERDOMAIN=CISCO
>> OS=Windows_NT
>> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
>> !::=::\
>> TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
>> DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
>> Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
>> COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
>> QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
>> USERNAME=rymcdowe
>> PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
>> PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/
>> FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
>> PWD=/usr/bin
>> SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
>> USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
>> LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W
>> PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
>> !C:=C:\cygwin\bin
>> SHLVL=1
>> HOME=/home/rymcdowe
>> USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM
>> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
>> HOMEDRIVE=C:
>> PROMPT=$P$G
>> COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
>> TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
>> SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
>> PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c
>> CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
>> PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
>> NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
>> VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
>> Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
>> SESSIONNAME=Console
>> COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP
>> _=/bin/printenv
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas?
>>
>> ----------------------------
>> Ryan McDowell
>> Systems Engineer
>> Cisco Systems, Inc
>> (W) +1 703.484.0040
>> (M) +1 703.201.5742
>> PGP Fingerprint: EED9 192F 9F45 FAE4 F6A3 8764 FEE1 299D 1B62 A361 
>> ----------------------------
>>
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