> When starting xterm with no locale environment variable set, it fails > to start. If you're quick enough, you can read a message along the > lines of "Cannot allocate pty: No such file ..." >Just a hint for debugging start problems with xterm: it has an option -hold in which case it doesn't terminate if the application terminates. Don't know, though, if this helps if there is an error during its own initialisation. -- 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