Re: XWin.exe crashes

[Lisi <lists at shemeshdirectory dot co dot il>]

I just installed KDE-cygwin, and I haven't gotten it start properly. Based 
on the errors I'm getting and the FAQs I've read, the suggestion was to 
make sure the paths are mounted in binmode, which involves changing a 
registry key. Since I'd prefer not to do that, will this patch work for me 
as well?

I am running Cygwin 1.3.13-2, XFree86 4.2.0-2, and KDE 2.2.2-b1 on Win 98.

I realize I am not being very specific about the problem, I am not looking 
for a personalized solution (yet!) I just want to know if this solution 
might apply to KDE as well.

Any other advice is appreciated as well.

Thanks,

-Lisi

At 04:10 PM 11/3/02 +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
> > Sven Köhler wrote:
> >
> > > good hint, now it works
> > > why? what's the problem using text-mounts with XWin?
> >
> > either xkbcomp or XWin opens the file in the wrong mode (they do not
> > specify if the data is binary or text) so it get's opened in the mode
> > which was specified with mount. I've just fixed the line in XWin but
> > have not tested if it fails too. But I guess it's xkbcomp which is the
> > problem.
>
> xkbcomp was not aware of binary or text files. I've changed it and xkbcomp
> now produces files with same length for binary and text mounts. Attached is
> a patch for this. It also patches the Xserver to open the files in binmode.
>
> A test binary is available:
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xkbcomp.exe.bz2
> replace the one in /usr/X11R6/bin und /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb or
> /etc/X11/xkb
>
> If it still fails, please test the patched XWin.exe too
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XWin-binmode.exe.bz2
>
> bye
>     ago
>
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