Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41F835E9.1AD3925F@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:29:29 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin.bat failing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Jon wrote: > I'm trying to run startxwin.bat on a Windows XP system. When I do, the > Cygwin/X Server starts however when the terminal window comes up, I get the > two following error messages: > > xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/bash: No such file or directory > xterm: Could not exec /bin/sh: No such file or directory. > > These look like things you would typically find on a unix box so it's not > suprising to get these errors. However, xterm runs for others in my office on > windows, but they don't know how it works or what to do to get around this. Questions about X11 belong in a different mailing list. cygwin-xfree AT cygwin.com. Please use that list for replies to this thread. I would say you also need to review for how to ask for help. Especially heed the part about attaching the cygcheck output to your post. It sounds like you have a simple PATH or mounts problem but you've not given nearly enough information for anyone to be able to diagnose it, which the cygcheck output will provide. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/