Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

[Jon TURNEY]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
If you are willing to do some further investigation, it would be a great 
help if you could:

* build the X server from source with debugging enabled
(no, don't run away! the autotoolized modular server is much easier to 
work with the monolithic imaked monstrosity)

Rebuilding the source *should* be as simple as:

1) Run cygwin setup, select cygport, the xorg-server source package; the 
packages for it's build-time dependencies, and devel packages 
corresponding to it's run-time dependencies.  The dependencies for 
xorg-server are listed in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-server-1.5.3.README
2) cd /usr/src/
3) edit xorg-server-1.5.3-3.cygport to add CFLAGS="-g -O0" to the line 
starting 'cygconf'
4) cygport xorg-server-1.5.3-3.cygport prep compile

To save you 30 minutes, here is a binary I built with debugging symbols.

ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20081204180806.exe.bz2

You will still need to install the source package and cygport prep to have the 
source available for debugging, though.

* run XWin under gdb, set a breakpoint on ProcXkbSetNamedIndicator, and 
tell me where and what the context is when it returns BadAlloc...

1) cd xorg-server-1.5.3-4/build/hw/xwin/.libs
2) gdb --args ./XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard
3) b ProcXkbSetNamedIndicator
4) run


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