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Re: XWin dying immediately on XP Pro SP1 - diagnostics techniques?


Harold,

There _was_ no XWin.log being created, but asking me about that actually
got me going in the right direction. ;)

It seemed pretty evident to me that if I wasn't seeing the log, XWin had
to be dying before it even got all the way up. I checked the XP system
log, and found that I was getting an application popup (suppressed due to
my settings while doing some beta software testing):

'XWin.exe - Unable To Locate Component : This application has failed to
start because cygz.dll was not found'

Sure enough, The Cygwin installer had not installed zlib.  I grabbed that,
installed it, and it works just fine now, including logging to
/tmp/XWin.log.

Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Alex,
>
> Please send in the contents of /tmp/XWin.log.
>
> Harold
>
> Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:
>> I'm having problems with getting XFree86 (in a freshly downloaded
>> current install of Cygwin) running on a system with XP Pro SP1 as the
>> operating system.
>>
>> From all appearances, XWin dies immediately after starting and then
>> everything else called from startxwin.sh dies as well....




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