From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor@fruitbat.org>
To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package x3270 installation error: startx crashes
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1612210941290.6490@ming.fruitbat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6bb348e-b703-986a-f0f5-576e069ea0be@gmail.com>
On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:56:23 +0100
> From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Package x3270 installation error: startx crashes
>
> On 20/12/2016 22:21, SERGEY BULDYREV wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> In November 2016 I tried several times to install Cygwin 2.6.0 from
>>
>> the official cite setup-x86_64.exe form various mirrors. Installation
>> always ended with an error:Package: _/x3270
>> x3270.sh exit code 1
>
> can you try to run the script
> etc/postinstall/x3270.sh
There is a known issue with this postinstall. It invokes mkfontdir which
throws an error because of the options it uses. This can be ignored.
I'll fix it eventually.
> If no failure is reported you can rename it as
> etc/postinstall/x3270.sh.done
> so that will not be rerun next time you run the setup.
Just rename it.
You will need to manually rebuild the font cache with mkfontdir.
>> I am using windows 10 on a Dell Laptop XPS 15.
>> When I tried startx from mintty, it always crashes.
>
> Have you tried startxwin ?
>
> When reporting problem please follows
>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> and attach the cygcheck.out.
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
>
>
>
>
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2016-12-20 21:22 ` SERGEY BULDYREV
2016-12-21 9:56 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-12-21 17:50 ` Peter A. Castro [this message]
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