RE: Errors running Cygwin/XFree86 on WindowsXP

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

The Xfree86 works on Windows XP (Personal and Professioanl Beta 2), but
xterm fails and gives a cygheap error.  Once Cygwin1.dll is available for
Windows XP, you should be able to use Xterm.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff G Strome [mailto:res0a6pd@verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 1:06 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Errors running Cygwin/XFree86 on WindowsXP
> 
> When I run startxwin.bat the only thing I see is the blank Cygwin/XFree86
> desktop, with a small rectangle in the top left corner that says bash.
> When
> I click on it, it disappears.  Xterm failed to launch also.  Any ideas
> what
> is causing the errors below -- the font problem and the heap problem.   I
> have all the required fonts installed.  I'm running this on a post beta 2
> build of WindowsXP.
> 
> $ rxvt: can't load font "Lucida Console-12"
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
> (0x2760000)
>  in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
> (0x24B0000)
>  in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xterm.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
> heap
> (0x2470000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
> 
> $ cygcheck -s
> 
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Sun Jun  3 21:15:12 2001
> 
> WinNT Ver 5.1 build 2484
> 
> Path:   /usr/local/bin
>         /usr/bin
>         /bin
>         /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32
>         /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS
>         /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WBEM
>         /cygdrive/c/Program Files/SecureCRT 3.0
> 
> SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
> WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
> 
> PWD = `/'
> USER = `Jeff'
> MAKE_MODE = `unix'
> HOME = `/home/Jeff'
> 
> Use `-r' to scan registry
> 
> a:  fd           N/A    N/A
> c:  hd  FAT32  19083Mb  19% CP    UN
> d:  cd           N/A    N/A
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin  /usr/bin  system  binmode
> C:\cygwin\lib  /usr/lib  system  binmode
> C:\cygwin  /        system  binmode
> c:    /cygdrive/c  user    binmode,noumount
> 
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
> 
>    56k 2000/12/03 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
>    18k 2000/10/23 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
>    14k 2000/10/23 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll
>    45k 2000/10/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll
>   119k 2000/10/23 C:\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll
>   163k 2001/05/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll
>    45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
>    26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
>   156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
>   226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
>    15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
>    17k 2001/01/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
>   108k 2001/01/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
>    81k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll
>    35k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll
>   390k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll
>     5k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll
>    10k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll
>   623k 2000/12/05 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll
>   243k 2000/10/23 C:\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll
>    45k 2000/11/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll
>    41k 2001/05/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll
>    49k 2001/02/03 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
>   678k 2001/05/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         dll major: 1003
>         dll minor: 2
>         dll epoch: 19
>         dll bad signal mask: 19005
>         dll old termios: 5
>         dll malloc env: 28
>         api major: 0
>         api minor: 39
>         shared data: 3
>         dll identifier: cygwin1
>         mount registry: 2
>         cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         program options name: Program Options
>         cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         cygdrive default prefix:
>         build date: Sun May 20 23:28:17 EDT 2001
>         shared id: cygwin1S3
> 
> Use -h to see help about each section
> 
> thanks,
> Jeff Strome
>