failed to activate core devices errors

[Jon TURNEY]

On 05/02/2011 12:57, katrin schmid wrote:
> i am trying to start XWin.exe
> in any of the ways described here:
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html
> and with just XWin.exe and ends in Sementation fault and failed to activate core devices errors.
> I found several post disscussing this on the web but no solution.
> Does somebody know?

I recently added this to the FAQ at [1].

Basically, assuming you have installed everything correctly, this problem is
caused by a failure in the cygwin DLL to fork another process for XWin to run
xkbcomp.

This isn't a bug in XWin, and there's very little I can do to fix it.

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-failed-to-compile-keymap

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Jon TURNEY
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