From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5965 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2015 20:35:32 -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 5946 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jan 2015 20:35:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f175.google.com Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f175.google.com) (209.85.217.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:35:29 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f175.google.com with SMTP id z11so7423005lbi.6 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:35:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.14.6 with SMTP id l6mr79019912lbc.91.1420230926097; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.152.23.34 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:35:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54A6FDB8.9070106@blankersfamily.com> References: <54A6FDB8.9070106@blankersfamily.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3 From: schilpfamily To: cygwin-xfree Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 rolling back to 1.3.2-1 fixed it. thank you very much for this, i was really pulling my hair out on this. i read your request to the maintainers and fully agree. while i only brought up this one bug, since it was basically making cygwin/x useless, there were other issues that made it annoying. thanks again. bill On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Laurens Blankers wrote: > On 2-1-2015 21:10, schilpfamily wrote: >> this has worked for years, now when i run this command, a window very >> briefly blinks into existence but then goes away. any idea why this >> would stop working now? > This is most likely due to a major rewrite of the xinit package which > contains all start-up scripts. > > If you downgrade the xinit package from 1.3.4-1 to 1.3.2-1 does your > setup work again? Here is how you downgrade: > > 1. Start the Cygwin installer > 2. Select the appropriate mirror and directories > 3. In the package selection screen search for 'xinit' > 4. Select the one from the 'X11' category and click on the version until > it cycles to 1.3.2-1 in stead of 1.3.4-1. > 5. Click Next and install > > If this does solve your problem you may want to read my request to the > maintainers: > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-12/msg00060.html > > Laurens > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/