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Don Mies wrote:
> I had been using cygwin for years but had not upgraded for over a year 
> so I decided to upgrade this weekend and did so.
> 
> There were no errors or complaints during the upgrade process and I used 
> all of the default settings in the dialogs.
> 
> My cygwin environment is no longer functional after the upgrade and I 
> have not been able to make any progress in fixing it.
> 
> As directed, I've attached a copy of the output from the cygcheck 
> program to this email.
> 
> Main symptoms:
> 
> 1) My shortcut for starting an xterm window no longer works correctly.  
> When I use it, I get a window with all the proper looking decorations.  
> It has a title of "xterm" but there is a new menu bar with 3 items in 
> it: "Main Options", "VT Options", "VT Fonts".  These look like  items in 
> the VT-100 windows mode that used to be invoked via the ctrl-<mouse 
> button> shortcuts.  I can select items from these menus and all 3 pop 
> down and appear to work normally.
> In the text portion of the window, I have a prompt which is not what I 
> used to have.  The main problem with this window is that it is 
> completely unresponsive to the keyboard and mouse in the text portion of 
> the window.  Typing in this area does not echo and no commands are 
> executed.  This is completely dead.  If I select "Main Options/Send INT 
> signal" it appears to work and I get a new line of text in the text 
> portion of the window with another prompt but I still cannot type 
> anything in the window.

<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything>

<snip>

> I realize that all this appears to be X related and I initially thought 
> about posting this on the cygwin-xfree mailing list but I did not do 
> that because I think there is something more fundamental wrong here.  

No, you just upgraded X without understanding the changes that have
occurred recently.  There is active development on Cygwin-X again.
You may want to go back and re-read the announcements.  You're working
with a modular X environment now.

<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#modular>

The Cygwin-X list would be the proper place to follow-up on any of
these X issues if you need further help.

> Even though my "PATH" variable looks reasonable, I think the problems 
> I'm having are related to the funny directories that the system is 
> trying to add to my PATH with I start a window.

<http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-x-is-broke>


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