On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >> 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. >> > I wasn't running anything Cygwin when I ran setup-x86.exe on the 21st. I've > attached /var/log/setup.log.full. There is no occurrence of the word rebase The log indicates it only downloaded the mirror list and setup.ini and updated nothing. That's why you should run "rebase-trigger full" then run setup-x86.
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