Re: Cygwin X11 server won't start
On 04/07/2015 07:27, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I am happy to report that I found the culprit. While installing another piece of software today, Lavasoft Web Companion came along as a stow-away. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove this @#$%^ program, and I ended up corrupting my registry in the process. I was able to restore my C:\ (boot) partition from last night's backup and all is well now. NOTE TO SELF: when an installation program offers you advanced options, LOOK AT THEM! In my case, there was an option to NOT install the extra unwanted software. This is the second report of Lavasoft Web Companion causing the X server to fail to start due to failure to run xkbcomp, see [1]. [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00195.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cygwin X11 server won't start
I am happy to report that I found the culprit. While installing another piece of software today, Lavasoft Web Companion came along as a stow-away. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove this @#$%^ program, and I ended up corrupting my registry in the process. I was able to restore my C:\ (boot) partition from last night's backup and all is well now. NOTE TO SELF: when an installation program offers you advanced options, LOOK AT THEM! In my case, there was an option to NOT install the extra unwanted software. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cygwin X11 server won't start
On 7/4/2015 6:12 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I had a Windows 7 crash this afternoon and now Cygwin/X server won't start. I've attached a couple files. Any idea how to correct this? Things have been OK for weeks. Thanks - Jim [48.438] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) [48.438] (EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512 it looks like recent: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00149.html [48.453] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [48.453] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [48.531] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) [48.531] (EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512 [48.531] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [48.531] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [48.531] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [48.531] (EE) Fatal server error: [48.531] (EE) Failed to activate core devices.(EE) [48.531] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us Likely unrelated, but noticed from your cygcheck.out I hope for you that you are resetting the path order inside bash. D:\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 9.4\bin D:\Perl\site\bin D:\Perl\bin C:\Windows\system32 C:\Windows D:\WATCOM\BINNT D:\WATCOM\BINW C:\Cygwin\bin ... Found: C:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe Warning: C:\Windows\system32\find.exe hides C:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe ... Found: D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe Found: C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe Warning: D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe hides C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
