Tried to fix "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" error with Emacs, now can't start X server
Cygwin 1.7.8 (and 1.7.9), Win7SP1. I was having issues with my Emacs startup occasionally failing with "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable". I found a link that alleged to have the solution to this (http://blog.cottee.org/2008/05/cygwin-emacs-problems.html). I followed these steps, although when I looked at "libncurses7", I saw it was set to "Skip", and that I had versions 8, 9, and 10. So, I set those to reinstall and continued the update. It also updated some other things, including updating me from Cygwin 1.7.8 to 1.7.9. Now, when I run "startxwin", it chugs for a bit and then presents an error dialog saying "Failed to activate core devices". The log file contents follows this. It fails like this every time now. --- Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.10.0.0 OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] Package version 1.10.0-1 built 2011-03-15 XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1920 h 1080 winInitializeDefaultScreens - native DPI x 96 y 96 [46.020] (II) xorg.conf is not supported [46.020] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information [46.020] LoadPreferences: /home/David/.XWinrc not found [46.020] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc [46.020] LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... [50.419] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed, allowing ShadowDD [50.419] winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT, allowing PrimaryDD [50.419] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL [50.466] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f [50.466] winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI [50.466] winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel [50.466] winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1080 depth: 32 [50.466] winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff [50.466] winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 [50.466] winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [50.466] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [50.466] Screen 0 added at virtual desktop coordinate (0,0). [52.541] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support [52.541] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel [53.102] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so [53.102] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 [53.165] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! [53.165] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! [53.523] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [53.523] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [53.523] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [53.633] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [53.633] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [53.633] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [53.633] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [53.633] Fatal server error: [53.633] Failed to activate core devices. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Tried to fix "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" error with Emacs, now can't start X server
On 4/18/2011 5:12 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/17/2011 6:30 PM, David M. Karr wrote: Cygwin 1.7.8 (and 1.7.9), Win7SP1. I was having issues with my Emacs startup occasionally failing with "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable". I found a link that alleged to have the solution to this (http://blog.cottee.org/2008/05/cygwin-emacs-problems.html). The advice about libncurses on that page is obsolete. It applied to old versions of emacs. The suggestion of running rebaseall is good but... I followed these steps, although when I looked at "libncurses7", I saw it was set to "Skip", and that I had versions 8, 9, and 10. So, I set those to reinstall and continued the update. It also updated some other things, including updating me from Cygwin 1.7.8 to 1.7.9. you should try rebaseall now. I tried to reply to this a while ago, but it never showed up on the list. This didn't fix the problem. I still can't start the X server. It fails with "Failed to activate core devices". Here is the log output: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.10.0.0 OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] Package version 1.10.0-1 built 2011-03-15 XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1920 h 1080 winInitializeDefaultScreens - native DPI x 96 y 96 [181003.592] (II) xorg.conf is not supported [181003.592] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information [181003.592] LoadPreferences: /home/David/.XWinrc not found [181003.592] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc [181003.592] LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... [181003.654] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed, allowing ShadowDD [181003.654] winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT, allowing PrimaryDD [181003.654] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL [181003.763] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f [181003.763] winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI [181003.763] winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel [181003.779] winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1080 depth: 32 [181003.779] winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff [181003.779] winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 [181003.779] winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [181003.779] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [181003.779] Screen 0 added at virtual desktop coordinate (0,0). [181003.779] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support [181003.794] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel [181003.826] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so [181003.826] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 [181003.841] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! [181003.841] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! [181003.966] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [181003.966] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [181003.966] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [181004.091] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [181004.091] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [181004.091] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [181004.091] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [181004.091] Fatal server error: [181004.091] Failed to activate core devices. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it
Cygwin 1.7.9 on Win7SP1. Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any of the apps that normally run with it, like Emacs. When I run "startxwin", it just says "failed to activate core devices". Here's the XWin.0.log: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.10.1.0 OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (Win32) Package: version 1.10.1-1 built 2011-04-22 XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1920 h 1080 winInitializeDefaultScreens - native DPI x 96 y 96 [498341.590] (II) xorg.conf is not supported [498341.590] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information [498341.590] LoadPreferences: /home/David/.XWinrc not found [498341.590] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc [498341.605] LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... [498341.652] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed, allowing ShadowDD [498341.652] winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT, allowing PrimaryDD [498341.652] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL [498341.730] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f [498341.730] winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI [498341.730] winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel [498341.746] winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1080 depth: 32 [498341.746] winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff [498341.746] winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 [498341.746] winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [498341.761] Screen 0 added at virtual desktop coordinate (0,0). [498341.761] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [498341.761] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support [498341.761] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel [498341.808] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so [498341.808] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 [498341.808] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! [498341.808] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [498342.089] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [498342.089] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [498342.089] Fatal server error: [498342.089] Failed to activate core devices. -- I looked in the FAQ for the entry corresponding to this error, but none of the steps found any issues. I've tried doing "rebaseall" according to the instructions, but that hasn't made any difference. In fact, my problems started when I ran "rebaseall" to fix a different problem. I was getting "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" when I started up Emacs, and some advice I found suggested running "rebaseall". I've run "cygcheck -c" and got all OK. I ran "cygcheck -s" and the only part that seemed vaguely suspicious was this excerpt: 12k 2010/08/03 C:\/usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'DcomLaunch': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'pla': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'QWAVE': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcEptMapper': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcSs': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. cygwin\bin\cygXcomposite-1.dll -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it
On 4/25/2011 8:23 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/04/2011 17:47, David M. Karr wrote: Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any of the apps that normally run with it, like Emacs. I realise this situation is an inconvenience, but please don't post to multiple lists just because you don't get a quick response. I didn't do that entirely because I hadn't seen a response. I considered the possibility that this was caused by an issue outside of the X server itself. When I run "startxwin", it just says "failed to activate core devices". [snip] [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [498342.089] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [498342.089] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [498342.089] Fatal server error: Failed to activate core devices. -- I looked in the FAQ for the entry corresponding to this error, but none of the steps found any issues. I've tried doing "rebaseall" according to the instructions, but that hasn't made any difference. In fact, my problems started when I ran "rebaseall" to fix a different problem. I was getting "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" when I started up Emacs, and some advice I found suggested running "rebaseall". Unfortunately, rebaseall is a rather limited workaround, rather than a solution for these issues (for reasons which have been discussed extensively in the past) There has been a recent cygwin DLL change which *might* help in this situation, so I'd suggest you try the 2011-04-07 snapshot from [1] and see if that makes a difference. (I wouldn't recommend later ones as they seem to have a regression in a different area) [1] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Thanks, I'll move towards that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it
On 4/25/2011 10:07 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/04/2011 17:47, David M. Karr wrote: Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any of the apps that normally run with it, like Emacs. I realise this situation is an inconvenience, but please don't post to multiple lists just because you don't get a quick response. When I run "startxwin", it just says "failed to activate core devices". [snip] [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [498341.949] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [498342.089] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [498342.089] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [498342.089] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [498342.089] Fatal server error: Failed to activate core devices. -- I looked in the FAQ for the entry corresponding to this error, but none of the steps found any issues. I've tried doing "rebaseall" according to the instructions, but that hasn't made any difference. In fact, my problems started when I ran "rebaseall" to fix a different problem. I was getting "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" when I started up Emacs, and some advice I found suggested running "rebaseall". Unfortunately, rebaseall is a rather limited workaround, rather than a solution for these issues (for reasons which have been discussed extensively in the past) There has been a recent cygwin DLL change which *might* help in this situation, so I'd suggest you try the 2011-04-07 snapshot from [1] and see if that makes a difference. (I wouldn't recommend later ones as they seem to have a regression in a different area) [1] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Also, I've found that using a different base address with rebaseall seems to help with some X problems: dash -c "rebaseall -b 0x7700" http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00306.html Ok, that appears to have fixed my problem. Is that a "permanent" fix? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
