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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Katisss@gmx.de
Subject: Re: failed to activate core devices errors
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5024FD.8010802@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110205125738.265190@gmx.net>

On 05/02/2011 12:57, katrin schmid wrote:
> i am trying to start XWin.exe
> in any of the ways described here:
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html
> and with just XWin.exe and ends in Sementation fault and failed to activate core devices errors.
> I found several post disscussing this on the web but no solution.
> Does somebody know?

I recently added this to the FAQ at [1].

Basically, assuming you have installed everything correctly, this problem is
caused by a failure in the cygwin DLL to fork another process for XWin to run
xkbcomp.

This isn't a bug in XWin, and there's very little I can do to fix it.

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-failed-to-compile-keymap

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-07 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-05 12:57 katrin schmid
2011-02-05 14:22 ` vometia
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTi=hvyj-kjhnx7MS-+BfSgzx21SexYYw1AxL4j2+@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-23 16:16     ` Mirko Vukovic
     [not found] ` <20110205210252.GA23458@win.tue.nl>
2011-02-05 23:42   ` katrin schmid
2011-02-07 17:12     ` Jon TURNEY
2011-02-10 13:31       ` Reinier Post
2011-02-07 16:59 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]

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