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Subject: Re: Failed to activate core devices
To: Dennis Putnam <dap1 AT bellsouth DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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From: Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:35:31 +0100
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On 17/08/2015 14:05, Dennis Putnam wrote:
> I've been running Xwin Server for a long time and today it started
> failing with the cannot compile keymap error. To start, I made sure I
> had the latest version of all the packages. After updating everything it
> didn't help. I ran the various commands suggested by the topics I found
> on this error. They all returned the output expected. I then ran though
> the list of incompatible software and noticed that I have several
> however, as I said, this was all working until today.

Unfortunately, it's the nature of these poorly understood 
incompatibilities that things appear to work, until one day something is 
different, and they don't.

 > I've attached the
> log file FWIW but I don't know where to go from here to troubleshoot
> this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Perhaps you can run 'strace -o log XWin' and attach the resulting log file?

This is similar to the problem reported in [1]

[1] https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00149.html


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