Re: Lots of Vista32 problems

["Michael J. Wheeler" <mwheeler at pittstate dot edu>]

Unfortunately, the most recent threads on vista do not seem to be related 
to my problems and/or are for Vista64-bit.

As far as the snapshots, no dice there either. When I run startxwin.bat, 
the "X" system tray icon appears, but xterm never starts. The only process 
running appears to be XWin.exe and it is not taking any CPU time. When I 
try to click on the icon in the system tray, XWin.exe maxes out one of my 
CPUs and that's it.

I would be more than happy to put up an strace somewhere so that somebody 
can look at it.

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Michael J. Wheeler
Senior System Administrator
Pittsburg State University
Phone:  620-235-4610
E-mail: mwheeler@pittstate.edu

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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
> > OK, I've been working on this problem for several days now and I'm about
> > ready to give up all together. I'm really hoping someone can help me 
> > out. I
> > used cygwin for years on XP and now that I've moved to Vista, I can't get
> > anything to work.
> >
> > Whenever I try to run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat , it crashes. I have
> > created a stackdump and put it here:
> > https://go.pittstate.edu/mjw/cygwin.strace . I was told to rebaseall and
> > that didn't work. I also tried rebasing to a different address, then back
> > to the default -- still nothing.
> >
> > Next, I was told to try to rebuild the current cygwin package. That fails
> > on make install every time (collect2.exe). After that, I tried 
> > building the
> > latest snapshot... Now configure fails near the beginning when it's 
> > testing
> > to see if gcc works. The only way I've seen to get around that is to do a
> > full reinstall.. but that's kind of frustrating waiting for 2 hours to
> > reinstall everything.
> >
> > Basically I'm at my wits end and I really hope somebody can help before I
> > give up on being able to use cygwin on Vista...
>
> Have you followed the recent threads on Vista?  How you tried just using a
> snapshot?


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