From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12006 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2010 18:40:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 11994 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jun 2010 18:40:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:40:06 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKboJ-0001XH-Oa for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:40:04 +0200 Received: from jfdmzpr04-ext.jf.intel.com ([134.134.137.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:40:03 +0200 Received: from phalpern by jfdmzpr04-ext.jf.intel.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:40:03 +0200 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com connect(): No such file or directory From: Pablo Halpern Subject: Re: Possible issue with run.exe under Windows 7 x64 Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00003.txt.bz2 Daniel Roe gmail.com> writes: > I have this command: > > run urxvt -g 100x40 -e /bin/bash --login > > When I start up the X-server using the default shortcut > (C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe) > I receive an error message like this: > > Error: could not start C:\cygwin\etc\alternatives\urxvt j-g 100x40 -e > /bin/bash --login > > The characters between 'urxvt' and '-g' change each time. If I change > the command so that run.exe is not used it works fine. Maybe there is > some memory issue with run.exe on 64-bit systems? I'm having the same problem with 32-bit cygwin on Windows XP since upgrading to Cygwin 1.7. Also, where does the path C:\cygwin\etc\alternatives come from? - Pablo -- 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/