This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-xfree
mailing list for the Cygwin XFree86 project.
Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:07:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it
- References: <4DB302A9.1090105@gmail.com> <4DB5920C.9010202@dronecode.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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/