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Re: failed to activate core devices errors
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Katisss at gmx dot de
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:59:41 +0000
- Subject: Re: failed to activate core devices errors
- References: <20110205125738.265190@gmx.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 05/02/2011 12:57, katrin schmid wrote:
> i am trying to start XWin.exe
> in any of the ways described here:
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html
> and with just XWin.exe and ends in Sementation fault and failed to activate core devices errors.
> I found several post disscussing this on the web but no solution.
> Does somebody know?
I recently added this to the FAQ at [1].
Basically, assuming you have installed everything correctly, this problem is
caused by a failure in the cygwin DLL to fork another process for XWin to run
xkbcomp.
This isn't a bug in XWin, and there's very little I can do to fix it.
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-failed-to-compile-keymap
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