Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-03-01 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.03.01.09:06:13 EST Hi Jon, Thanks for the tips. George gee_barrick_at_kent_dot_edu On 2/28/15, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: On 25/02/2015 14:30, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: I have one small note for other

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 25/02/2015 14:30, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: I have one small note for other folks who might like to run their system in a way similar to mine. I like to have xlaunch automatically start a single colored xterm for me (in multi-window mode). After that I just open more from the command line

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-25 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.02.25.09:27:05 Hey Jon and cygwin staff, As you surmised, the difficulty was with xlaunch starting the new xwin-1.17.2-1. The xlaunch-20150224-1 that you posted yesterday works like a charm. I have one small note for other folks who might like to run

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 25/02/2015 04:35, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: # gdb --pid=`pidof /usr/bin/XWin` ... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/XWin.exe...Reading symbols from /cygdrive/c/Cygwin /lib/debug//usr/bin/XWin.exe.dbg...Can't read data for section '.debug_frame' in file

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 18:03, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: I've been using xlaunch with a windows desktop shortcut for about a year to start a multi-window instance of xwin on my Win7 computers. [snip] OK. Now for the difficulty. I recently (today) updated my cygwin system to include the newest

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 19:35, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 24/02/2015 19:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use. Since this issue does not get reported in

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 19:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use. Since this issue does not get reported in xwin.0.log or xwin.0.log.old, I do not yet

Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.02.24.09:26:38 EST Hey cygwin folks, I've been using xlaunch with a windows desktop shortcut for about a year to start a multi-window instance of xwin on my Win7 computers. This is cygwin32 on an installation of Win7_x86-64. The command within the

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use. Since this issue does not get reported in xwin.0.log or xwin.0.log.old, I do not yet know how to provide more information. I have

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: With regard to the crash problems, can you please try the instructions at [1] to generate a backtrace. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html This isn't a backtrace, but it's what caused the X server to crash (while I was at work): [

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
With regard to the crash problems, can you please try the instructions at [1] to generate a backtrace. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html gdb won't let me continue: # gdb --pid=`pidof /usr/bin/XWin` ... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/XWin.exe...Reading symbols from

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.02.24.18:06:36 EST Hey Jon, Thanks for your attention to all that detail. I will test the updated xlaunch-20150224-1 when it hits some of the mirrors tomorrow morning. Georgegee_barrick_at_kent_dot_edu On