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Re: failed to activate core devices errors
- From: Mirko Vukovic <mirko dot vukovic at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: vometia <nabble at vometia dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:15:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: failed to activate core devices errors
- References: <20110205125738.265190@gmx.net> <30851851.post@talk.nabble.com> <AANLkTi=hvyj-kjhnx7MS-+BfSgzx21SexYYw1AxL4j2+@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, vometia wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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've just experienced what appears to be the same problem after an
>> unintentional update; exiting Cygwin and re-running setup so that I could
>> reinstall bash and the readline libs (which it complained about not being
>> able to overwrite since Cygwin was running at the time) fixed the problem
>> I
>> was seeing.
>>
>> I'm not certain you're experiencing exactly the same problem I had, but in
>> lieu of a better suggestion, it may be worth a try.
>> --
>>
>
> Same problem here.? It also ocurred after after a package update where I
> ignored the warning about replacing the `in-use-files'
>
> I tried reinstalling the xkbdcomp and xkeyboard-config packages, but that
> did not fix the problem.
> I then reinstalled the whole cygwin-xfree.? The problem remained.
>
> Mirko
>
I fixed this problem by reinstalling cygwin, cygwin-xfree and the
previous version of
xkeyboard-config: 1.8.1.
The latest version of xkeyboard-config (1.9-something), was causing
the same problem.
Mirko
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