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Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it


On 4/25/2011 10:07 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 23/04/2011 17:47, David M. Karr wrote:
Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any of the
apps that normally run with it, like Emacs.
I realise this situation is an inconvenience, but please don't post to
multiple lists just because you don't get a quick response.

When I run "startxwin", it just
says "failed to activate core devices".
[snip]
[498341.949] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp
[498341.949] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
[498341.949] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead.
[498342.089] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp
[498342.089] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
[498342.089] XKB: Failed to compile keymap
[498342.089] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or
incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
[498342.089] Fatal server error: Failed to activate core devices.
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I looked in the FAQ for the entry corresponding to this error, but none of the
steps found any issues.  I've tried doing "rebaseall" according to the
instructions, but that hasn't made any difference.  In fact, my problems
started when I ran "rebaseall" to fix a different problem.  I was getting
"Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" when I started up Emacs, and
some advice I found suggested running "rebaseall".
Unfortunately, rebaseall is a rather limited workaround, rather than a
solution for these issues (for reasons which have been discussed extensively
in the past)

There has been a recent cygwin DLL change which *might* help in this
situation, so I'd suggest you try the 2011-04-07 snapshot from [1] and see if
that makes a difference. (I wouldn't recommend later ones as they seem to have
a regression in a different area)

[1] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Also, I've found that using a different base address with rebaseall
seems to help with some X problems:

dash -c "rebaseall -b 0x77000000"

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00306.html


Ok, that appears to have fixed my problem. Is that a "permanent" fix?


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