On Mar 21 16:03, Linda Walsh wrote: > Finally tracked this down. > > when I ran the cygserver-config, it installed a different > path for cygserver-config than what everything else > thinks it is running under... > > I.e. even though my shell and the dbus server, both think > they are running under C:/bin (which is a symlink -> > cygwin64/bin, through C:\windows\system32\cygwin)
Why did you mess around with the install paths that badly? Don't
install anything Cygwin into C:\windows.
> The cygserver-config installed C:\cygwin64\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
> in the registry -- which worked for starting it, but it thought
> it was a different instance than anything else.
>
> i.e. bash, and X11 and dbus are all started off of C:\bin.
>
> I changed the path of the service to correspond to the others
> (->C:\bin\cygrunsrv.exe), and now my X server picks up the shared
> memory.
>
> (But glxgears still don't turn... -- I thought the lack of shared
> memory might be a problem there, but guess its another problem).
>
> So why didn't cygserver-config install what all the other progs
> thought they were under ("C:\bin")?
The script just calls cygrunsrv. cygrunsrv fetches it's own path via
the Win32 API GetModuleFileName and that API returns the path apparently
cleaned from symlinks.
Corinna
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