Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct, was: post-upgrade problems

2009-06-28 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM >>> After upgrading from X 6.8.99.901-1 to 7.4-1, I had font problems, >>> but could launch an xterm from the new cygwin. After attempting to >>> fix that by installing fonts, I cannot launch an xterm Jon TURNEY Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:48 PM (heavily edited)

Re: [1.7] Socket problems after xorg-server update

2009-06-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/28/2009 2:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Ken Brown wrote: After I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6.0-10, XWin.exe exited immediately with the following error message in the log file: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 Although it's clear as mud, this message should n

Re: Novice Question

2009-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andy wrote: Jon, Thanks for your help Yes your correct the IP6 had nothing to do with the problem ..(again thanks) Well, I think perhaps the situation is a bit more complex that that :-) Here is the backtrace requested Thanks very much, very helpful. I wonder if I might trouble you to tr

Re: [1.7] Socket problems after xorg-server update

2009-06-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 28/06/2009 13:17, Jon TURNEY wrote: This is curious. I don't seem to have IPv6 installed and the server starts fine for me, with that warning. I was running 1.6.0 on WinXP w/o IPv6 installed for some time. You could try disabling the IPv6 socket with '-nolisten inet6' to see if it makes a

RE: Novice Question

2009-06-28 Thread Andy
Jon, Thanks for your help Yes your correct the IP6 had nothing to do with the problem ..(again thanks) Here is the backtrace requested an...@andys-pc /usr/bin $ gdb --args ./XWin.20090628173519.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -logverbose 3 GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C)

Re: [1.7] Socket problems after xorg-server update

2009-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: After I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6.0-10, XWin.exe exited immediately with the following error message in the log file: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 Although it's clear as mud, this message should not be a fatal error, just a warning. T

Re: Novice Question

2009-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andys wrote: Trying to get the lastest X to run on Cygwin 1-7 but only seem to be able to get a core dump the log: Firstly, thanks very much for trying it out and reporting the problem. XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-e