cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7? Solution Found

[wgweis@sbcglobal.net]

Hi All:

    I fixed this problem.  I was using the cygwin beta 1.7.  I reinstalled 
cygwin using the last stable release, 1.5.25.
I also had to add the "sleep 5" line to startxwin.bat and startxwin.sh.

    So, I guess this is a defect to log against the 1.7 beta:  the xterm 
executable can't seem to connect to shared memory
for windows 7, home edition.

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wgweis@sbcglobal.net>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?


>I turned off UAC, or so I am told.
>
> The server seems to start up OK.  But xterm cannot access the shared 
> memory? I ran this from the Cygwin.bat and got this stack dump.
>
>
>      Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=3D73693A^M
>      eax=00CA9719 ebx=5C3D6F68 ecx=0028B98D edx=0000038D esi=3A485B45 
> edi=5C3D6D69^M
>      ebp=68345B45 esp=0028BB60 program=C:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe, pid 168, 
> thread main^
>      M
>      cs=0023 ds=002B es=002B fs=0053 gs=002B ss=002B^M
>      Stack trace:^M
>      Frame     Function  Args^M
>      End of stack trace
>      ~
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?
>
>
>> On 12/07/2009 06:13 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
>>>> I'm asking because what I have noticed about Windows 7
>>>> >  Home Edition is that even though I have created a user for myself 
>>>> > with
>>>> >  administrative priveleges, unless I tell the OS that I want to
>>>> >  run a program as the administrator it will default to the privileges
>>>> >  for an
>>>> >  ordinary user.  I don't know a way to turn this off, yet.
>>> I don't believe there is a workaround, unfortunately.  Vista has the 
>>> same issue.
>>>
>>
>> Isn't this just UAC?  You can turn that off for a user if you want.
>>
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>> A: Yes.
>> > Q: Are you sure?
>> >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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