XWin dying immediately on XP Pro SP1 - diagnostics techniques?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:

> 'XWin.exe - Unable To Locate Component : This application has failed to
> start because cygz.dll was not found'
>
> Sure enough, The Cygwin installer had not installed zlib.  I grabbed that,
> installed it, and it works just fine now, including logging to
> /tmp/XWin.log.

Alex,

AFAICS, XFree86-xserv requires XFree86-base, which in turn requires zlib.
Did zlib not get selected in setup (which would indicate a bug in setup's
dependence mechanism), or did you explicitly unselect it when installing?
	Igor
P.S. It's good to know about turning off application popups.  Is that done
by some conventional means, or can you only do it using an XP system call?

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:

> Harold,
>
> There _was_ no XWin.log being created, but asking me about that actually
> got me going in the right direction. ;)
>
> It seemed pretty evident to me that if I wasn't seeing the log, XWin had
> to be dying before it even got all the way up. I checked the XP system
> log, and found that I was getting an application popup (suppressed due to
> my settings while doing some beta software testing):
>
> 'XWin.exe - Unable To Locate Component : This application has failed to
> start because cygz.dll was not found'
>
> Sure enough, The Cygwin installer had not installed zlib.  I grabbed that,
> installed it, and it works just fine now, including logging to
> /tmp/XWin.log.
>
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > Alex,
> >
> > Please send in the contents of /tmp/XWin.log.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote:
> >> I'm having problems with getting XFree86 (in a freshly downloaded
> >> current install of Cygwin) running on a system with XP Pro SP1 as the
> >> operating system.
> >>
> >> From all appearances, XWin dies immediately after starting and then
> >> everything else called from startxwin.sh dies as well....

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