RE: Cannot start xterm

["Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe)" <rymcdowe at cisco dot com>]

My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3 from scratch.? I then installed cygwin 1.7.3 from scratch.? My first issue was I could not find startxwin.bat.? I know it was supposed to be moved to /bin/startxwin.bat, but its not there.? I built my own shortcut to start xwin "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe".? That seems to start up the server just fine.? However, when I click on "Applications->xterm", nothing happens.? I started up a normal cygwin window and manually try to start xterm via "xterm -display localhost:0".? This gives me the following:

bash-3.2$ xterm -display localhost:0
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-boldo8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
bash-3.2$

I then tried to install all the fonts I could find, nothing seemed to fix the issue.

I should also point out that I think something else was dorked up in the installation, as the PATH variable failed to include basic things like "/bin".? I had to manually add them back in my .bashrc (which the Cygwin.bat script fails to read, so I have to manually source it).

When I first run Cygwin.bat, here is my environment.? I'm thinking maybe some other variable is not set properly which is the root cause of xterm not finding any fonts.

bash-3.2$ /bin/printenv
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe\Application Data
TERM=cygwin
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
USERDOMAIN=CISCO
OS=Windows_NT
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
!::=::\
TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
QTJAVA=C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
USERNAME=rymcdowe
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Credant/Shieldv5.4.2/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/c/ProgramFiles/Intel/WiFi/bin/
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
PWD=/usr/bin
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\rymcdowe
LOGONSERVER=\\ADC-RTP1-C1-5-W
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
!C:=C:\cygwin\bin
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/rymcdowe
USERDNSDOMAIN=CISCO.COM
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
HOMEDRIVE=C:
PROMPT=$P$G
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rymcdowe/LOCALS~1/Temp
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0e0c
CLASSPATH=.;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
SESSIONNAME=Console
COMPUTERNAME=RYMCDOWE-WXP
_=/bin/printenv

Anybody have any ideas?

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Ryan McDowell
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