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Re: XWin dying immediately on XP Pro SP1 - diagnostics techniques?
- From: "Alex K. Angelopoulos" <aka at mvps dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:47:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: XWin dying immediately on XP Pro SP1 - diagnostics techniques?
- References: <b9n2hu$kk9$1@main.gmane.org> <3EBF15C4.8030503@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Harold,
There _was_ no XWin.log being created, but asking me about that actually
got me going in the right direction. ;)
It seemed pretty evident to me that if I wasn't seeing the log, XWin had
to be dying before it even got all the way up. I checked the XP system
log, and found that I was getting an application popup (suppressed due to
my settings while doing some beta software testing):
'XWin.exe - Unable To Locate Component : This application has failed to
start because cygz.dll was not found'
Sure enough, The Cygwin installer had not installed zlib. I grabbed that,
installed it, and it works just fine now, including logging to
/tmp/XWin.log.
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Please send in the contents of /tmp/XWin.log.
>
> Harold
>
> Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:
>> I'm having problems with getting XFree86 (in a freshly downloaded
>> current install of Cygwin) running on a system with XP Pro SP1 as the
>> operating system.
>>
>> From all appearances, XWin dies immediately after starting and then
>> everything else called from startxwin.sh dies as well....