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Re: 1.5.23 on vista: difficulties launching X


Dick Repasky wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:

Dick Repasky wrote:


I'm experiencing difficulty starting X on a fresh install of cygwin on a
fresh install of Windows Vista. I've tried both startxwin.sh and startx.
startxwin.sh always fails, and startx sometimes succeeds. A copy of
cygcheck
output is attached.


startxwin.sh fails in three ways.

<snip>


Unlike the previous poster who reported a similar error, there is no
logitech camera or virus program running on the system. It is indeed a
fresh install.



Have you tried the suggestions mentioned in this thread?


<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00059.html>


Yes. Using the latest snapshot changes things, but doesn't clearly improve them.

For both startxwin.sh and startx, the snapshot eliminates the popup that states that sh.exe has exited.

Startxwin.sh still fails every time with the "child_copy: linked dll data
write copy failed" error that I originally reported.

startx fails more than it works. It worked in only 2 of ten runs. For 7 of the 8 failures, it ended with the usual child copy error. The odd failure was one in which it hung with processor use at 100%, and windows reported cat.exe as the process that was burning up the cycles.

Did you try rebasing?


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