Win2k/KDE/XFree86: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)"

[Ralf Habacker]

> I'm using Win2K and a very recent Cygwin installation,
> from which I've installed everything including XFree86
> v4.2.0.
>
> After I installed KDE (using the manual procedure since
> setup reported errors while downloading), I started
> getting errors whenever I started X or a program that
> tried to X. The following Windows dialog pops up:
>
>  <appname>.exe - Application Error
>  ---------------------------------
>  The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022).
>  Click on OK to terminate the application
>  [[ OK ]]
1. Which applicationname is printed ?

2. Do you have rebinded ? If please remove the /opt/kde2 /opt/qt2 path and
unpack the archives again. If the problem is still valid, please let us know.

>
> I found that replacing the original files that had been
> replaced via kde-x-1.3.tar.bz2 fixed the problem, and
> that even if I copied just libX11.[dll,a] back from
> kde-x-1.3.tar.bz2, the problem resurfaced (of course,
> without the new libraries, KDE fails since it requires
> the shared memory extensions).

This is not the problem. The problem may be probably like Sylvain saind a
corrupted file. Do you have errors while unpacking the files ?

Ralf