Re: git gui and gitk fail to start on cygwin updated 8/25/2011

[Marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 8/25/2011 4:30 PM, Jensen, James H CAR wrote:
> I get the following error:
>
> Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment v
> ariable
> Error in startup script: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
>      while executing
> "load /usr/lib/tk8.5/../../bin/libtk8.5.dll Tk"
>      ("package ifneeded Tk 8.5.9" script)
>      invoked from within
> "package require Tk"
>      (file "C:\cygwin\bin\gitk" line 11)
>
> I am not running the X server.
>
> It has been a few months since I update cygwin.  Until I did git was working fine.
> I installed doxygen, and from ports I installed graphviz.
>
> I redacted cygcheck.out
>
> Thanks, Jim Jensen

Have you noted that you have also
D:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin
in parallel to cygwin-1.7.9

and that libtk8.5.dll is not coming from cygwin ?

By chance, in your last update
"Last downloaded files from: ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports"

  did something go wrong ?

Marco

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