Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/31/2012 11:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/31/2012 6:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I found a rather bad crash bug I'd introduced

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-02 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: This was apparently a cygwin1.dll problem.  I've installed the 2012-04-01 cygwin1.dll  snapshot, and XWin.20120329-git-6d4583d53c249549.exe starts again. I've resumed testing texworks. I had a similar experience. I could not get xterms to

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/2/2012 8:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/31/2012 11:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/31/2012 6:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-04-02 16:14, Ken Brown wrote: Much earlier in the thread I mentioned a warning QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/kbrown. I've looked at the QtCore sources, and that warning is generated by the function QFileSystemWatcher::addPaths, in corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher.cpp. If

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-01 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I wanted to do some further tests, but I thought I should install the latest Cygwin snapshot (2012-03-30) first.  With that Cygwin snapshot, the XWin snapshot of 20120329 won't start. It's not quite right here either. Xwin starts up OK, but I

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/04/2012 07:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I wanted to do some further tests, but I thought I should install the latest Cygwin snapshot (2012-03-30) first. With that Cygwin snapshot, the XWin snapshot of 20120329 won't start. It's not

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 31/03/2012 11:28, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: For me, the problem of texworks hanging only occurs very intermittently. It seems to be blocked deep in QtCore, waiting for the spawned process to terminate (which has already happened). Attaching to the texworks

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-31 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I found a rather bad crash bug I'd introduced and fixed that, so you might want to try today's snapshot [1], but I'm not

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/31/2012 6:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I found a rather bad crash bug I'd introduced and fixed that, so you might want to

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-30 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I found a rather bad crash bug I'd introduced and fixed that, so you might want to try today's snapshot [1], but I'm not confident that I fixed the problem you saw,

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/03/2012 13:44, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm afraid I can't reproduce your issue, but looking at the backtrace and the somewhat intermittent nature of the fault, I think perhaps this crash is caused by a race

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 28/03/2012 13:44, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm afraid I can't reproduce your issue, but looking at the backtrace and the somewhat intermittent nature of the fault, I think perhaps

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-29 14:59, Ken Brown wrote: OK, I'm running it now and have attached gdb to it. The good news is that I've been running it for a couple hours with no crash, and I've used texworks and have opened many tex files and pdf files in it without a problem. The bad news is that texworks

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/29/2012 4:20 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-03-29 14:59, Ken Brown wrote: OK, I'm running it now and have attached gdb to it. The good news is that I've been running it for a couple hours with no crash, and I've used texworks and have opened many tex files and pdf files in it without

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-24 14:47, Ken Brown wrote: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents matter, but in my case both files contain the following: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/03/2012 21:32, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/26/2012 4:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: One further detail for anyone trying to reproduce this: I just tried it on a second computer, and my recipe didn't immediately produce

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 21:32, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/26/2012 4:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: One further detail for anyone trying to reproduce this: I just tried it on a second computer,

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: To reproduce: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents matter, but in my case both files contain the following: \documentclass{article}

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: To reproduce: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents matter, but in my case both files contain the

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/26/2012 4:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: To reproduce: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents matter,