XWin.exe not running on Vista

[Scott Fordin]

Have you tried starting Cygwin using Vista's "Run as Administrator"
option? I've found that Cygwin and Vista don't get along at all
unless you run the bash shell explicitly as Administrator.

Also, your message indicates that you're starting XWin directly
from bash, rather than using the startx script. FWIW, I find it
more generally useful to use startx.

Hope this helps,

Scott

felix.maurer@post.ch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed the following Cygwin version on a Vista WS ( AMD 64 X2
> Dual Core Processor with 32-bits Operating System):
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.0 nodename 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
> 
> 
> When I try to start XWin.exe, I get the following message:
> 
> 
> user@nodename /usr/X11R6/bin
> $ XWin -screen 0 1280 1024 -logverbose 10
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.99.901-4
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -screen 0 1280 1024 -logverbose 10
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winValidateArgs - Returning.
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more
> information
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1280 dwHeight: 1024
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits
> per pixel
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h: 1024
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1170 1920
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1170 1920
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1280 h 1024 r 1280 l 0
> b 1024 t
>  0
> winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATEAPP
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
> winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface
> winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface
> winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 5120
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 5120
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1280
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24
> bpp 32
> winRandRInit ()
> winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> winFinishScreenInitFB - returning
> winScreenInit - returning
> InitOutput - Returning.
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack
> of shar
> ed memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0000100C" (0000100c)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "French (Switzerland)" (100c), type "4"
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "fr_CH" Variant = "(null)"
> Options = "(n
> ull)"
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>> Error:            Can't find file "pc/fr_CH" for symbols include
>>                   Exiting
>>                   Abandoning symbols file "default"
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> (--) 3 mouse buttons found
> 
> 
> Then XWin.exe stops working with the following message:
> 
> 
> roblem signature:
>   Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
>   Application Name:	XWin.exe
>   Application Version:	0.0.0.0
>   Application Timestamp:	43603add
>   Fault Module Name:	ntdll.dll
>   Fault Module Version:	6.0.6001.18000
>   Fault Module Timestamp:	4791a7a6
>   Exception Code:	c0000710
>   Exception Offset:	00088e7a
>   OS Version:	6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.4
>   Locale ID:	2055
>   Additional Information 1:	e0b3
>   Additional Information 2:	3381a2bb347d2a7fd93caef5716d692f
>   Additional Information 3:	3301
>   Additional Information 4:	18b93e7bb56d45169c16a0a55fcb86c0
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> Has anone an idea what it could be and what can I do?
> 
> Many thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Felix Maurer
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