Windows 7 update broke Cygwin X?

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 16:43:00 GMT 2016


On 09/09/2016 18:03, Joshua Hoke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a recent Windows update, I am unable to start Cygwin's X server
> anymore. I tried updating to the latest Cygwin by running setup again,
> /usr/bin/rebaseall and rebooting. There are no obvious errors from the
> X server if I run /usr/bin/startxwin from a Cygwin console, but it
> seems to exit after 20 seconds or so:
>
> $ date; /usr/bin/startxwin; date
> Fri, Sep 09, 2016 12:00:58 PM
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.18.4.0
> OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 3QGH462 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-31 14:27 i686
> OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (WoW64)
> Package: version 1.18.4-1 built 2016-07-22

works fine for me. Same configuration

>
> Any ideas about what how to fix or troubleshoot this? I use it all the
> time and it worked before this update.
>

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