From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17214 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2011 15:40:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 17105 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2011 15:40:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DATE_IN_PAST_03_06,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_KB,TW_XK,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:40:08 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PdPHQ-0007n2-Bb for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:40:04 +0100 Received: from dyn069179.nbw.tue.nl ([131.155.69.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:40:04 +0100 Received: from reinpost by dyn069179.nbw.tue.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:40:04 +0100 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Reinier Post Subject: Re: can not startx Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <4B43D464.9070305@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Yaakov (Cygwin/X users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > On 05/01/2010 16:56, eric lin wrote: > > this is my /var/log/XWin.0.log > > where I think problm cause, fail startx, please help, eric > > Sigh. Lets try this again: > > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Yaakov > Cygwin/X I can't follow the rules, there because I'm posting this from http://post.gmane.org/post.php?group=gmane.os.cygwin.xfree&followup=20508 which doesn't support attachments. My XWin.0.log exhibits the same problem eric lin reported: XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [etc.] To check this I replaced xkbcomp with a shell script and indeed, it does not get called. Running as X -logverbose 100 does not shed any light on the problem. Running X or XWin with strace doesn't work (strace refuses to run X and on XWin crashes out with access violation, I'm on Windows 7). The problem appeared after running a rebaseall and rebooting for a regular Windows 7 update. I haven't made any hardware changes and Cygwin/X was running fine yesterday. After the problem appeared, running another erebaseall or updating my Cygwin 1.7 installation didn't help. I'm not replying here to report the problem in full detail (because I can't add attachments) but to report a workaround: install XMing from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/ and run that. Then after setting $DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0.0 I can run X clients such as xterm from the Cygwin bash prompt. -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven -- 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/