On 04/07/2015 07:27, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I am happy to report that I found the culprit. While installing > another piece of software today, "Lavasoft Web Companion" came along > as a stow-away. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove this > @#$%^& program, and I ended up corrupting my registry in the process. > I was able to restore my C:\ (boot) partition from last night's backup > and all is well now. >> NOTE TO SELF: when an installation program offers you advanced > options, LOOK AT THEM! In my case, there was an option to NOT install > the extra unwanted software. This is the second report of "Lavasoft Web Companion" causing the X server to fail to start due to failure to run xkbcomp, see [1]. [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00195.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple