Well, I tried just downloading the X11 package, from 4 different
mirrors. The first 3 gave me the "download incomplete" but the 4th
did not. It only gave me the following:
Package: Unknown package
rxvt.sh exit code 3
xinit.sh exit code 3
The good news is I was able to fire up startx and an xterm. I kind of
wanted to try kde but at this point I'm afraid, as I seem to have a
working X windows system so I think I'll get back to work now....
-Alan
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Art Vandelay <qqa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have happily used Cygwin on my laptops for years (Windows XP).
> This past week I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 (64 bit).
>
> I have made perhaps 10 different attempts at installing Cygwin and it
> seems each time I get different errors.
>
> Some of the mirror sites are terribly slow, so after Googling I've
> settled on kernel.org, but I still get errors using that mirror.
>
> One frequent error is the "Download incomplete" error. I usually
> ignore this one, perhaps ignoring it is causing the other issues?
>
> If ignoring it is a problem, what are my options? Try another mirror?
>
> Another common error is something like "Can't open (null)".
>
> I am able to start X windows using "startx", the windows manager
> creates 3 terminals for me. But when I try to use xterm to create my
> own terminal I get:
>
> No protocol specified
> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display :0
>
> -Alan
--
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
