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RE: XWin.exe bug? USER32.DLL could not be loaded.
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: XWin.exe bug? USER32.DLL could not be loaded.
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:51:45 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Brass [mailto:BrassH@web.de]
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XWin.exe bug? USER32.DLL could not be loaded.
>
> When I run XWin.exe for some time under heavy load (KDE desktop with
> Opera
> browser and multiple windows), I get an Windows NT error message that
> "USER32.DLL" could not be loaded. From this moment, no new programs
> can be
> started on the NT system, not even a DOS box (always same error
> message on
> missing USER32.DLL). It even does not help to log out and log on again
> to
> the NT system, the NT system must be completely restarted.
>
> I checked the M$ knowledgebase Q142676 which says that the error
> "USER32.DLL" is caused by an overflow of the desktop's heap. Maybe
> there are
> memory holes caused by XWin.exe?
>
maybe problem with Cygwin heap? I do not know, has anyone else seen it?
> I tried the commandline arguments -ld 3000 and ls 1000 when starting
> XWin.exe, and up to now the problem has not come up again. But maybe I
> did
> not try it long enough to reproduce the error...
>
> Can anyone tell me what is the reason for this behaviour?