1.5.23 on vista: difficulties launching X

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Dick Repasky wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm experiencing difficulty starting X on a fresh install of cygwin on a 
> fresh install of Windows Vista.  I've tried both startxwin.sh and 
> startx. startxwin.sh always fails, and startx sometimes succeeds. A copy 
> of cygcheck
> output is attached.
> 
> startxwin.sh fails in three ways.
> 
>   1) Immediately after the system has been booted, a popup appears to 
> notify
>      me that sh.exe has exited, and X seems to be stalled.  An X appears
>      in the toolbar, and both xterm and XWin are in the cygwin process 
> table
>      (ps -aux).  No xterm appears. A copy of the combined standard output
>      and standard input are provided in startxwin.sh-outerr-postreboot.
> 
>      The xterm in the process table can be killed with kill -TERM.
> 
>      Attempts to launch an xterm fail. (I open a new cygwin window, set
>      and export DISPLAY, and run xterm).
> 
>      XWin cannot be killed with kill -TERM.  It can be killed with kill -9.
> 
>      All of the above is repeatable if the system is rebooted.
> 
>      I have seen the previous post of sh.exe exit that turned out not to
>      be repeatable. Maybe the above will provide some insight on getting it
>      to repeat.
> 
>      Without rebooting, what happens on subsequent runs of startxwin.sh
>      depends on how I clean up from the first failed run.
> 
>  2)  If I clean up from a first failed run by killing the xterm and
>      Xwin, subsequent runs of startxwin fail with a popup stating that
>      Cygwin X has failed.
> 
>      The cause seems to be a lingering sh.exe process in the table.
> 
>  3) If I clean up from a first failed run by dismissing the cygwin terminal
>     window by clicking on the window-close button, the sh.exe process goes
>     away, and startxwin.sh fails with a message like "xterm 3228 
> child_copy:
>     linked dll data write copy failed, ...".  Full output is attached as
>     startxwin.sh-outerr.
> 
>     Unlike the previous poster who reported a similar error, there is no
>     logitech camera or virus program running on the system. It is indeed a
>     fresh install.
> 

Have you tried the suggestions mentioned in this thread?

<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00059.html>

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