On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: >> On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run >>> 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I >>> get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the >>> icons menu and right click on the Cygwin icon and get a list of categories >>> of >>> applications to run and apparently launch because if I try to launch some >>> and >>> wait long enough and right click on the aforementioned icon and select quit >>> it says there are N apps running and do I want to close them. The problem >>> is >>> that anything I launch through the icons menu doesn't display anywhere and >>> in >>> particular doesn't appear in the task bar. I have read the FAQ and UG but >>> can't find what I'm looking for. It definitely seems to me that the >>> behaviour has changed since before I updated. >>> >>> Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? I would be very grateful >>> for any help. Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Mike >> >> Are you sure those apps you are trying to launch are actually installed? You >> could always bring up a Cygwin terminal (not through the X icon) and >> explicitly "export DISPLAY=0:0" and then try to launch one of the apps from >> the command line to see any errors. >> >> Jack > > All I did was download setup-x86.exe on the 21st, run it and when presented > with > the drop down View list used Pending (by default) and then clicked Next etc. > If > I switch to Up To Date when presented with the drop down View list it does > indeed show that everything I've tried to run is installed. I must have > hundreds of packages installed. I did that last year intentionally. I > selected > packages to install by Category and then installed the entire Categories. > That's > what I'm saying all this stuff used to just work and now it just doesn't so > I'm > either completely missing the obvious or else it really seems like something > is > wrong with my installation or the behaviour has changed. If I'm just missing > the obvious then please just tell me where I'm going wrong. > > I do not want to uninstall everything and then re-install because I have no > confidence that that will solve the problem. To repeat the Cygwin/X icon is > there and the menu is there. The packages that I am most immediately > interested > in are the Cygwin Emacs packages which are clearly in the Up To Date list. If > the packages aren't installed then why would they show up in the menu? If I > look in C:\cygwin\bin I can see among others emacsclient-nox.exe, > emacsclient-X11.exe, emacs-nox.exe and emacs-X11.exe so they're installed > right?
May have run out of DLL address space. Run "rebase-trigger full", shut down everything Cygwin, download and run setup-x86, then check /var/log/setup.log.full for rebase problems. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
