From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13471 invoked by alias); 5 Jul 2013 13:14:26 -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 13452 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jul 2013 13:14:25 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TW_YG autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:14:24 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uv5q9-0004WN-Ql for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:14:22 +0200 Received: from 169.15.137.27 ([169.15.137.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:14:21 +0200 Received: from david by 169.15.137.27 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:14:21 +0200 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Subject: Re: Cygwin/x doesn't work on windows 8 Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (cygwin) X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 Anton Malykh writes: > 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 > > I attach my cygcheck and xwin log files. Please let me know if any > additional information is needed. > > Thanks! > Tony Whenever I get that I need to rebase everything. A little involved, but not too complicated. Google for something like "cygwin rebaseall" and you should find out what you need to do. I'd dig into more detail, but I'm at work right now... Good luck, Dave -- 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/