RE: XWin Server fails to start with keymap failure, strace log attached.

["John T. Kerich" <johnkerich2 at hotmail dot com>]

>I've uploaded a patched version which collects more information at [1], perhaps you download that, put it in /usr/bin and try that strace command again. (You may need to chmod +x it after downloading)

>[1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86_64/strace.exe

I assume the patched version was this strace.exe.  I downloaded it and ran it in the /usr/bin after renaming the original strace.exe.  This is what showed up on the terminal window.  Attached is log_v2.

strace -o log_v2 XWin
Could not load crashreporter dll
Could not load crashreporter dll
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.17.1.0
OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 JohnKerich-PC 2.0.2(0.287/5/3) 2015-05-08 17:00 x86_64
OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] (Win64)
Package: version 1.17.1-4 built 2015-05-01

winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1680 h 1050
winInitializeScreenDefaults - native DPI x 120 y 120
XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin

(II) xorg.conf is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
LoadPreferences: /home/JohnKerich/.XWinrc not found
LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000005
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - new client area w: 1662 h: 955
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar      ed memory support in the kernel
(EE) AIGLX: No native OpenGL in modes with a root window
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast
(II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
(EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
(EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512
(EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
(EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead.
(EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
(EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512
(EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
XKB: Failed to compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
(EE) Fatal server error:
(EE) Failed to activate core devices.(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Attachment: log_v2
Description: Binary data

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