cygserver errors

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/09/2006, Lester Ingber wrote:
> I am having problems with cygserver similar to those discussed in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg01378.html.  On my XP Pro
> system, under Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Application, I see
> several red X's whenever I start my modified startxwin.sh.  (I have found
> that the script in /usr/X11R6/bin crashes unless I add /bin to
> export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH":/bin .)  So, my Cygwin utilities start OK,
> except I do get occasional crashes of individual xterm windows for no
> reason I can discern, which I have reported before but no follow-ups
> occurred.
> 
> I am getting errors like:
> 	"The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Cygwin ) cannot
> 	be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
> 	information or message DLL files to display messages from a
> 	remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to
> 	retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The
> 	following information is part of the event: cygserver: error
> 	getting handle(1684) to server (5)."
> 
> I do run setup for all users, and my mounts are under system, the main
> focus of the discussion under msg01378.html referenced above.
> 
> I cannot see if the is a cygwin or cygwin-xfree problem, so I'm sending
> this to both forums.

cygserver is a core Cygwin service so the Cygwin list is the proper place
to discuss it.

What does '/var/log/cygserver.log' say?

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