RE: Installation problems

[dirk dot schultheis at gmx dot de]

It seems to me that the cygwin.dll  in the X-Server contrib package
(/usr/bin/X11/) is not the correct version. If I rename it to cygwin1.old then the
problems dissapear.

> 
> 
> > I tried to install the X-Server binaries 1.0  from the contrib dir on
> a
> > fresh installed cygwin-net-environment.
> >
> > The first problem was the the cygwin setup mounted the lib to
> /usr/lib.
> > So the fonts, rbg.txt haven't been in the right place. Maybe the
> cygwin-
> > developer will correct this problem.
> > My Solution was to unmount the lib dir and then install the Xservers.
> > Now the XServer can be started successful. But when i tried to start
> xterm
> > I get the following problems:
> 
> The other work around is:
> 
> Install it in /usr directory and use DOS shell to start X-server. It
> works
> fine for X-servers-v-1.0
> 
> >
> > bash-2.04$ xterm
> > y:\usr\bin\X11\xterm.exe: *** shared region is corrupted.  inited 14
> >       0 [main] ? 0 lpfu: void pinfo::record_death (int):374 having
> > problems gett
> > ing lock
> >    2109 [main] ? 0 lpfu: *** void pinfo::record_death (int)(374), pid
> 285
> > unloc
> > ked, rc -1, Win32 error 6
> >    6851 [main] ? 0 unlock_pinfo: ReleaseMutext (pinfo_mutex<0x0>)
> failed,
> > Win32
> > error 6
> 
> This is due to conflicting versions of Cygwin1.dll.
> 
> You should use startx.bat or startdx.bat supplied with X-server.  They
> are
> in usr/bin/X11 directory.  If you use one of these batch files to
> start X server, an xterm should open automatically.  Please check
> the announcement message.  I did mention use one of these
> batch file. The X-servers itself were compiled using MSVC and do not use
> Cygwin1.dll. Xterm and windows managers make use of pttys, therefore
> these applications cannot be compiled using MSVC, at the moment, unless
> someone contributes a driver or DLL which provides pttys for MSVC.
> 
> Regards
> Suhaib
> 
> >
> > Any Idea ?
> >
> > Ciao, Dirk
> >
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