cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 06:30:04 GMT 2020


On 11.06.2020 17:57, Steinar Bang wrote:
> Platform: amd64, windows 10 10.0.18363 Build 18363,
>            cygwin xorg-server 1.20.5-3, xlaunch 20160530-1
> 
> I start X11 by double clicking the following config.xlaunch:
>   https://gist.github.com/steinarb/8687e2113c601e061da909e75a180f39
> 
> After the reboot caused by a windows 10 upgrade, launching X11 using
> xlaunch have stopped working.

that seems to indicate a change in Windows not in Cygwin.
May be the graphic drivers ?

> 
> I have tried:
>   1. Running xlaunch directly instead of double clicking config.xlaunch
>   2. Running setup-86_64.exe to install all pending upgrades
>   3. Running setup-86_64.exe to reinstall xlaunch
>   4. Running setup-86_64.exe to reinstall xorg-server
> 
> But none of this has made any difference.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?
> 
> Here's XWin.0.log from a startup attempt:
>   https://gist.github.com/steinarb/dacfec5172fd547cbec7c87723163193
> 
> Thanks1
> 
> 
> - Steinar

Hi Steinar,
please provide the cygcheck.out as suggested by:

> Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html

can you start X11 with startxwin ?
If you start with just "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard"
does it work ?

Regards
Marco



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