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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:51:38 -0400
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On 10/31/2010 6:00 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Dom 31/10/10, Nigel Hardy  ha scritto:
>
>> When I try to start my new emacs
>> under X from bash, I get complete silence. This happens with
>> "emacs" and directly with "emacs-X11.exe".
>> "emacs-nox.exe" starts up fine.
>>
>> I have just upgraded to emacs 23.2-3 (from, I believe a 22
>> version - I have no record of what was replaced).
>>
>> I am running cygwin 1.7.7 as follows:
>>
>>     bash-3.2$ uname -a
>>     CYGWIN_NT-6.0 pcpnwh 1.7.7(0.230/5/3)
>> 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
>>     bash-3.2$
>>
>> I am running Vista with all patches as far as I can tell.
>>
>> I have tried returning to emacs 23.2-1 but that shows the
>> same (lack of) behaviour. I fear that I am guilty of
>> ignoring an earlier error. I was on an old version of emacs
>> because I had a problem a while back which I solved quickly
>> by returning to an earlier version. That earlier version is
>> now not available directly from set up so I have got
>> caught.
>>
>> I don't even know where to start with diagnosing what is
>> happening. Any suggestions?
>
>
> start here
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> It seems a dll missing problem

Two further suggestions for the OP.  First, run 'cygcheck 
/usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe' to see if it reports a missing dll.  Second, try 
running emacs-X11 in a non-X terminal (like mintty).

Ken


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