What happened to my KDE?
Jelks Cabaniss
jelks at jelks.nu
Thu Apr 1 23:28:47 CEST 2004
I've been running Cygwin (with X) for several years now on WinXP. A couple
of months ago or so I installed KDE3 and it worked great.
For some reason (can't exactly remember why) I switched back to
mirrors.kernel.org. I did several non-KDE upgrades, and everything --
including KDE -- still worked great.
Then a few days ago, I ran the Cygwin installer to see if there was anything
new. Wow -- a *bunch* of X-related stuff! I installed it all.
And KDE no longer worked. :(
So I switched back to using the Cygwin URL and saw there a couple of
KDE-related packages flagged for upgrading, so I did so. Still KDE did't
work.
So I uninstalled *everything* KDE-related with the Cygwin installer. Just
to make sure I then even removed the paths manually mentioned on the Cygwin
KDE3 installation page. I then reinstalled and ran 'rebaseall -v'.
It *still* does NOT work (though plain Xwindows with TWM -- startxwin.bat --
works fine).
Running 'startx -rootless &' (which is what I had been running earlier)
complained about a missing ~/.Xauthority, so I 'touch'ed one. Still no go;
it gives me this error message:
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2):
no program named "/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm"
in PATH
Well, yeah -- xterm.exe is in /usr/bin.
So what can I do to fix this?
BTW, running 'startx &' from a bash console now gives me a single GUI xterm
-- no KDE desktop like before!
Also (and perhaps unrelated), every time I run the Cygwin installer using
the KDE-Cygwin URL, it tells me there's a KDE network package upgrade. So I
continue through, but evidently it doesn't take because if I re-run the
installer, there it is again. And again and again and again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
/Jelks
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