On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >On 23/04/2011 17:47, David M. Karr wrote: >> Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any of >> the >> apps that normally run with it, like Emacs. > >I realise this situation is an inconvenience, but please don't post to >multiple lists just because you don't get a quick response. > >> When I run "startxwin", it just >> says "failed to activate core devices". >[snip] >> [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp >> [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap >> [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. >> [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp >> [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap >> [498342.089] XKB: Failed to compile keymap >> [498342.089] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or >> incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. >> [498342.089] Fatal server error: Failed to activate core devices. >> ------------------------------ >> >> I looked in the FAQ for the entry corresponding to this error, but none of >> the >> steps found any issues. I've tried doing "rebaseall" according to the >> instructions, but that hasn't made any difference. In fact, my problems >> started when I ran "rebaseall" to fix a different problem. I was getting >> "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" when I started up Emacs, and >> some advice I found suggested running "rebaseall". > >Unfortunately, rebaseall is a rather limited workaround, rather than a >solution for these issues (for reasons which have been discussed extensively >in the past) > >There has been a recent cygwin DLL change which *might* help in this >situation, so I'd suggest you try the 2011-04-07 snapshot from [1] and see if >that makes a difference. (I wouldn't recommend later ones as they seem to have >a regression in a different area) > >[1] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Also, I've found that using a different base address with rebaseall seems to help with some X problems: dash -c "rebaseall -b 0x77000000" http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00306.html cgf -- 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/