Vista RTM startxserver & startxwin fail?

[Michael J. Wheeler]

Sounds like the definition of a Bohr bug :)

Looks like i'm using the 1.5.22-11 DLL. I didn't see an option in the setup 
to use a different version... How would I go about doing that?

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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  1 21:39, Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
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>> Please forgive me if I'm not posting this to the correct list...
>>
>> I've just done a fresh install of Windows Vista Business Enterprise. For 
>> some reason, I cannot get the cygwin X server to start.
>>
>> When I run either of the batch files in the subject, I get a popup message 
>> from the OS saying that "sh.exe has stopped working".
> 
> I could reproduce this error, then I straced it, then I changed to
> another DLL, then the error disappeared, then I switched back to the
> 1.5.22 DLL... and then the error *still* disappeared.  From this time
> on I was totally unable to reproduce it.  Go figure.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

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