Re: can't start KDE on FreeBSD from Windows XP

[Ralf Habacker <ralf dot habacker at freenet dot de>]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Bruce Rhodewalt wrote:
> > I'm having trouble configuring KDE on my Windows XP machine (using
> > Cygwin/X 2004/03/25).
> >
> >  From my bash shell, I can ssh or telnet to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE
> > machine.  However, if I try to connect and run KDE, I have problems.
>
> where do you run KDE? On the FreeBSD box or on cygwin? The log below
> say you're starting it on cygwin.
>
> If so then I'd pass you on to the kde-cygwin mailing list.
>
> > iceauth:  creating new authority file /home/Bruce/.ICEauthority
> > KDEINIT_KIO_EXEC
> > kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 3604 result = 0
> > C:\programfiles\cygwin\opt\kde3\bin\kdeinit.exe (3872): *** unable to
> > remap C:\p
> > rogramfiles\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll to same address as parent(0xD30000) !=
> > 0xD40000
> >     1105 [main] kdein   3604 sync_with_child: child 3872(0x65C) died
> > before initi
> > alization with status code 0x1
> >     1632 [main] kdein   3604 sync_with_child: *** child state child
> > loading dlls
>
> I think this is the reason why you get no windows. But i have no clue
> what caused this error.
>
This is a rebasing problem. See 
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php#rebase. 

BTW: Don't know the email address of bruce so send to the cygwin-xfree list 
too. 

Regards 

Ralf