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Message-ID: | <55719E37.6070100@dronecode.org.uk> |
Date: | Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:03:51 +0100 |
From: | Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> |
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CC: | johnkerich2 AT hotmail DOT com |
Subject: | Re: XWin Server fails to start with keymap failure, |
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On 04/06/2015 22:46, John T. Kerich wrote: > I have google the web and found this type of problem in a number of > locations dating a back to 2011. However, none of the checks so a problem > and no of the solutions fix the startup problem. See after log. Thanks for the detailed report. > [ 5753.129] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-1) > [ 5753.129] (EE) xkbcomp exit status 32512 > [ 5753.145] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap > [ 5753.145] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap > instead. I think this is status 0x7F00, which indicates that spawning a shell to run xkbcomp failed with exit code 127 which means "command not found". This is somewhat confusing, as you clearly do have xkbcomp. > This problem started after I updated Cygwin. I uninstalled Cygwin, deleted > all directories, and reinstalled. No change. > > /var/lib/xkb/, but this directory didn't exist. – Is does. I don't understand this sentence. This directory should exist, containing a README.compiled, created by the xorg-server-common package. > $ ls -l > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 JohnKerich None 0 May 31 18:15 alternatives > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 JohnKerich None 0 May 31 18:20 dbus > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 JohnKerich None 0 May 31 18:15 rebase > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 JohnKerich None 0 May 31 18:19 xkb > > ls /usr/share/X11 - /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled/ is pointing (symbolic link) > to /var/lib/xkb/, - I see no link This suggestion is very out of date. If you found these instructions on the cygwin website, please tell me where so I can update it. > • Check that /usr/bin/xkbcomp can be run from a bash shell. If that fails, > see if cygcheck /usr/bin/xkbcomp reports any missing DLLs. The cygcheck output looks correct. I assume you also checked that xkbcomp can be run? > This is all I found googling. I have no idea on how to proceed. Any help > would be most appreciated. FAQ 9.15 also refers you to 9.16, which refers on to [1] for various software which can interfere [1] https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.bloda If that doesn't help, perhaps you can run 'strace -o log XWin' and attach the resulting log file? -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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