Re: Xserver error in proc_subproc

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 09:06:43PM +0200, fabio.olimpieri@tin.it wrote:
>At home I have a P4 2.66 with HT.  I have installed Cygwin/X and I have
>launched it with the command Xwin (with XWin -multiwindow it doesn't
>work).  When I start xterm an other xclients (ex.  RXVT) I get this
>error message:
>
>3 [main] xterm 1992 proc_subproc: Couldn't duplicate my handle<0x7E8> for
>pid 1072, Win32 error 5
>    967 [main] xterm 1992 sync_with_child: child 1072(0x60C) died before
>initialization with status code 0x80
>   1765 [main] xterm 1992 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp
>xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
>Reason: spawn: fork() failed
>
>I have installed Cygwin/X in the computer of my office and it works
>properly.
>
>I have read all the documentation, FAQ and searched in the mail archive
>but I haven't found anything.

It sounds like you have two copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.

Have you read http://cygwin.com/problems.html ?
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