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

["David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>]

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.
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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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