On 13/04/2012 03:30, Charles Sheridan wrote: > This week, after upgrading my Cygwin installation for the first time since > ~April of 2011, X server startup failed, with the below oft-reported entries > at the end of /cywin/var/log/xwin/Xwin.0.log -- > > ... > [ 10092.016] (II) GLX: Initialized Win32 native WGL GL provider for screen 0 > [ 10092.235] (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm > [ 10092.235] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. > [ 10092.313] (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm > [ 10092.313] XKB: Failed to compile keymap > [ 10092.313] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or > incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. > [ 10092.313] > Fatal server error: > [ 10092.313] Failed to activate core devices. > [ 10092.313] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. > > This occurs on startup attempts from Xwin, startx, & startxwin. > > I have not previously seen X server startup failure, over 10 years of > Cygwin-X use on several different mswin machines. > > X server startup failure persists after Cygwin re-installation following an > HP Vista Enterprise laptop reboot, without any Cygwin processes running, and > despite post-install run of several recommended variations on `rebaseall` -- > `rebaseall -b 0x77000000` under both ash & dash, and without the -b arg. > > => WORKAROUND: The new "Xlaunch" in the All Programs/Cygwin-X dir off the > Windows Start Button starts X without issue. > > => POSSIBLE CAUSE: The same Xwin.0.log errors are reported in several X > windows fora for platforms other than Cygwin. The first link below is a long > entry in a Debian forum concluding that the issue relates to a problematic > memory module, that can be bypassed via the "nopat" option to XWin. I > couldn't get the Cygwin XWin cmd to recognize this option. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646987
Read more carefully. "nopat" is a linux kernel option, which is being used there to work-around a kernel bug. So all that bug tells you is when running the xkbcomp program at xserver startup fails, you get these error messages. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
