Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: Ping? Did you test it? Does no feedback mean that it now works? Sorry was off for a week or so. Everything is fine here now. Corinna Ciao Volker

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-04-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 3 22:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 30 09:30, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I just tried your fix which seems to be in the 20040329 snapshot. But now /usr/sbin/cygserver doesn't start anymore. I installed it as a service with cygrunsrv. The same happens for my other cygwin service

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna == Corinna Vinschen writes: Corinna I've build my own debug version of the X stuff today and I tracked the Corinna SEGV down. It's an unfortunate combination of two bugs in the SHM Corinna implementation: Corinna - shmat() returns NULL on error instead of (void *)-1.

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 26 19:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 26 11:18, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: keen to debug it. From what I can tell, the shmctl call works fine. After that call, the XFreeFont() function accesses a piece of data, 512 bytes before the address of the buffer

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 19:12, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Ok here my debug attempts. Following is the output of /var/log/cygserver.log when starting xfontsel. After the -- snip -- you'll find the lines which showed up when xfontsel crashed. For this run I started the XWin server without the env variable

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 13:38, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Volker, Using the Cygwin Way-Back Machine (http://cygwin.get-software.com/release/XFree86/XFree86-xserv/) I have retrieved a copy of XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-55 which is immediately prior to the change from cygserver to cygipc. I would like you to test

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 25 13:38, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Volker, Using the Cygwin Way-Back Machine (http://cygwin.get-software.com/release/XFree86/XFree86-xserv/) I have retrieved a copy of XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-55 which is immediately prior to the change from cygserver to cygipc. I

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 26 09:23, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Other than that, I'm not at all familar with that stuff. How can I set up a minimal test system, so that it uses the bigfont extension and, especially, IPC? Yesterday I just started cygserver, XWin and uxterm, and it doesn't

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 26 09:23, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Other than that, I'm not at all familar with that stuff. How can I set up a minimal test system, so that it uses the bigfont extension and, especially, IPC? Yesterday I just started cygserver, XWin and

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 26 11:18, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: keen to debug it. From what I can tell, the shmctl call works fine. After that call, the XFreeFont() function accesses a piece of data, 512 bytes before the address of the buffer used as third argument to shmctl(). This

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-25 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna == Corinna Vinschen writes: Corinna Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README? Yes Corinna I guess you know that there are a bunch of settings you can change in Corinna /etc/cygserver.conf and also that cygserver has a debugging option, right? yes, but I forgot

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Volker, Using the Cygwin Way-Back Machine (http://cygwin.get-software.com/release/XFree86/XFree86-xserv/) I have retrieved a copy of XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-55 which is immediately prior to the change from cygserver to cygipc. I would like you to test this version and verify whether you can or

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi I tried to find some information about the BigFont extension. This is from the X man page: XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE Setting this variable to a non-empty value disables the XFree86-Bigfont extension. This extension is a mechanism to