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Re: startx fork() problem with Vista and solution
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 21:48:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: startx fork() problem with Vista and solution
- References: <5edafdc90705051917j7deaac3do87695b831739b516@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Joel Eidsath wrote:
> I'm running a fairly vanilla install of Windows Vista and had the
> fork() error with startx that has been previously reported. I would
> run startx and it would only successfully start up every second time I
> tried to run it, otherwise giving the fork() error.
>
> The solution was to run "rebaseall." Unfortunately, this didn't work
> right away. It bombed out with "error 6" on several files --
> cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll, cygcrypt-0.dll and cygz.dll. I moved each of
> these to a temporary directory to get "rebaseall" to run.
>
> This fixed the fork() problem with startx.
>
> Is "rebaseall" called by setup at any time? (I know the documentation,
> which seems old, says not.) If so, then these "error 6" problems may
> be bombing it out.
No, 'rebaseall' is not called by 'setup.exe'. You have to invoke it
manually if you need it.
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