On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, vometia wrote: >> >> >> katrin schmid wrote: >> > >> > i am trying to start XWin.exe >> > in any of the ways described here: >> > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html >> > and with just XWin.exe and ends in Sementation fault and failed to >> > activate core devices errors. >> > I found several post disscussing this on the web but no solution. >> > Does somebody know? >> > >> I've just experienced what appears to be the same problem after an >> unintentional update; exiting Cygwin and re-running setup so that I could >> reinstall bash and the readline libs (which it complained about not being >> able to overwrite since Cygwin was running at the time) fixed the problem >> I >> was seeing. >> >> I'm not certain you're experiencing exactly the same problem I had, but in >> lieu of a better suggestion, it may be worth a try. >> -- >> > > Same problem here. It also ocurred after after a package update where I > ignored the warning about replacing the `in-use-files' > > I tried reinstalling the xkbdcomp and xkeyboard-config packages, but that > did not fix the problem. > I then reinstalled the whole cygwin-xfree. The problem remained. > > Mirko >
I fixed this problem by reinstalling cygwin, cygwin-xfree and the previous version of xkeyboard-config: 1.8.1. The latest version of xkeyboard-config (1.9-something), was causing the same problem. Mirko -- 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/