From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 74207 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2015 13:35:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 74197 invoked by uid 89); 17 Aug 2015 13:35:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:35:39 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02FA2124B for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:35:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:35:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-113-234.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.113.234]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 23DA068014F; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:35:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Failed to activate core devices To: Dennis Putnam , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <55D1DC36.5030306@bellsouth.net> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jon TURNEY Message-ID: <55D1E323.70202@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 13:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55D1DC36.5030306@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00282.txt.bz2 On 17/08/2015 14:05, Dennis Putnam wrote: > I've been running Xwin Server for a long time and today it started > failing with the cannot compile keymap error. To start, I made sure I > had the latest version of all the packages. After updating everything it > didn't help. I ran the various commands suggested by the topics I found > on this error. They all returned the output expected. I then ran though > the list of incompatible software and noticed that I have several > however, as I said, this was all working until today. Unfortunately, it's the nature of these poorly understood incompatibilities that things appear to work, until one day something is different, and they don't. > I've attached the > log file FWIW but I don't know where to go from here to troubleshoot > this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps you can run 'strace -o log XWin' and attach the resulting log file? This is similar to the problem reported in [1] [1] https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00149.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple