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Re: startxwin.bat failing
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:29:29 -0800
- Subject: Re: startxwin.bat failing
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <loom.20050126T234138-54@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Jon wrote:
> I'm trying to run startxwin.bat on a Windows XP system. When I do, the
> Cygwin/X Server starts however when the terminal window comes up, I get the
> two following error messages:
>
> xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/bash: No such file or directory
> xterm: Could not exec /bin/sh: No such file or directory.
>
> These look like things you would typically find on a unix box so it's not
> suprising to get these errors. However, xterm runs for others in my office on
> windows, but they don't know how it works or what to do to get around this.
Questions about X11 belong in a different mailing list. cygwin-xfree AT
cygwin.com. Please use that list for replies to this thread.
I would say you also need to review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
for how to ask for help. Especially heed the part about attaching the
cygcheck output to your post. It sounds like you have a simple PATH or
mounts problem but you've not given nearly enough information for anyone
to be able to diagnose it, which the cygcheck output will provide.
Brian
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