From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16030 invoked by alias); 5 Jul 2013 11:39:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15999 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jul 2013 11:39:32 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.12.60) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:39:16 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id r65BdEis009600 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 07:39:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.6] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id r65BdDKb000381 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 07:39:14 -0400 Message-ID: <51D6B058.5090408@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:39:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin/x doesn't work on windows 8 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On 7/4/2013 8:45 PM, Anton Malykh wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologize if this bug is already known. > I have two fresh windows 8 machines. Looks like cygwin/x doesn't work > on either of them with similar symptoms. > The installation went fine. "xwin" command seems to work as expected. > But when I try to right click on X icon in tray -> Applications -> > xterm (or emacs/xload) - nothing happens. In the terminal I'm getting: >> >> 0 [main] xwin 1880 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x340000) != child(0x2C0000) >> fork() to run command failed See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures . > I attach my cygcheck and xwin log files. Your cygcheck output shows that you don't have emacs installed, so you won't be able to start it from the X icon. But that's not related to your fork failure. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/