RE: Installation problems

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>
> It seems to me that the cygwin.dll  in the X-Server contrib package
> (/usr/bin/X11/) is not the correct version. If I rename it to
> cygwin1.old then the
> problems dissapear.

That one is from June 1 snapshot.   It wroks for me.  I used it to
compile xterm, that is why I left it there.  If it does not work for
you then do not use it.

Suhaib

>
> >
> >
> > > I tried to install the X-Server binaries 1.0  from the contrib dir on
> > a
> > > fresh installed cygwin-net-environment.
> > >
> > > The first problem was the the cygwin setup mounted the lib to
> > /usr/lib.
> > > So the fonts, rbg.txt haven't been in the right place. Maybe the
> > cygwin-
> > > developer will correct this problem.
> > > My Solution was to unmount the lib dir and then install the Xservers.
> > > Now the XServer can be started successful. But when i tried to start
> > xterm
> > > I get the following problems:
> >
> > The other work around is:
> >
> > Install it in /usr directory and use DOS shell to start X-server. It
> > works
> > fine for X-servers-v-1.0
> >
> > >
> > > bash-2.04$ xterm
> > > y:\usr\bin\X11\xterm.exe: *** shared region is corrupted.  inited 14
> > >       0 [main] ? 0 lpfu: void pinfo::record_death (int):374 having
> > > problems gett
> > > ing lock
> > >    2109 [main] ? 0 lpfu: *** void pinfo::record_death (int)(374), pid
> > 285
> > > unloc
> > > ked, rc -1, Win32 error 6
> > >    6851 [main] ? 0 unlock_pinfo: ReleaseMutext (pinfo_mutex<0x0>)
> > failed,
> > > Win32
> > > error 6
> >
> > This is due to conflicting versions of Cygwin1.dll.
> >
> > You should use startx.bat or startdx.bat supplied with X-server.  They
> > are
> > in usr/bin/X11 directory.  If you use one of these batch files to
> > start X server, an xterm should open automatically.  Please check
> > the announcement message.  I did mention use one of these
> > batch file. The X-servers itself were compiled using MSVC and do not use
> > Cygwin1.dll. Xterm and windows managers make use of pttys, therefore
> > these applications cannot be compiled using MSVC, at the moment, unless
> > someone contributes a driver or DLL which provides pttys for MSVC.
> >
> > Regards
> > Suhaib
> >
> > >
> > > Any Idea ?
> > >
> > > Ciao, Dirk
> > >
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