1.5.23 on vista: difficulties launching X

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Dick Repasky wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> 
>> 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.

<snip>

>>>      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>
> 
> 
> Yes. Using the latest snapshot changes things, but doesn't clearly 
> improve them.
> 
> For both startxwin.sh and startx, the snapshot eliminates the popup that 
> states that sh.exe has exited.
> 
> Startxwin.sh still fails every time with the "child_copy: linked dll data
> write copy failed" error that I originally reported.
> 
> startx fails more than it works. It worked in only 2 of ten runs.  For 7 
> of the 8 failures, it ended with the usual child copy error. The odd 
> failure was one in which it hung with processor use at 100%, and windows 
> reported cat.exe as the process that was burning up the cycles.

Did you try rebasing?

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