Cygwin X11 server won't start

[Marco Atzeri]

On 7/4/2015 6:12 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I had a Windows 7 crash this afternoon and now Cygwin/X server won't
> start.  I've attached a couple files.
>
> Any idea how to correct this?  Things have been OK for weeks.
>
> Thanks - Jim

> [    48.438] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
> [    48.438] (EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512

it looks like recent:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00149.html

> [    48.453] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> [    48.453] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead.
> [    48.531] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
> [    48.531] (EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512
> [    48.531] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> [    48.531] XKB: Failed to compile keymap
> [    48.531] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing
> or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
> [    48.531] (EE) Fatal server error:
> [    48.531] (EE) Failed to activate core devices.(EE)
> [    48.531] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>
>
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
>

Likely unrelated, but noticed from your cygcheck.out

I hope for you that you are resetting the path order
inside bash.

        D:\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 9.4\bin
        D:\Perl\site\bin
        D:\Perl\bin
        C:\Windows\system32
        C:\Windows
        D:\WATCOM\BINNT
        D:\WATCOM\BINW
        C:\Cygwin\bin
...
Found: C:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe
Warning: C:\Windows\system32\find.exe hides C:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe
...
Found: D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
Found: C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe
Warning: D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe hides C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe


Regards
Marco


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