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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: X server crash when running texworks
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7303E1.107@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F72F30A.4020401@dronecode.org.uk>

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, and my recipe didn't immediately produce the crash.  But I
>>>> simply started trying to use texworks (loading and compiling various tex
>>>> documents), and the X server crashed within a few minutes.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much for the detailed report.
>>>
>>> On the off chance this is a known issue, would you mind downloading the X
>>> server symbols and getting a backtrace using the instruction on [1], before I
>>> try to reproduce it.
>>
>> OK, the backtrace is attached.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> 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 condition which exists in the conversion of the window icon
> from an X property to a Windows icon.
>
> I've uploaded a snapshot with some fixes for that at [1], perhaps you could
> try that out and see if it helps?
>
> [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120328-git-ab32650607c59327.exe.bz2

Yes, that seems to fix it.  I just started texworks and compiled 6 or 7 
tex documents without a crash.  I've never been able to do more than 1 
or 2 before.

Thanks!

Ken


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-24 19:48 Ken Brown
2012-03-26 19:47 ` Ken Brown
2012-03-26 20:07   ` Jon TURNEY
2012-03-26 20:33     ` Ken Brown
2012-03-28 11:16       ` Jon TURNEY
2012-03-28 12:28         ` Ken Brown [this message]
2012-03-28 12:46           ` Ken Brown
2012-03-29 12:14             ` Jon TURNEY
2012-03-29 20:00               ` Ken Brown
2012-03-29 20:21                 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-03-29 21:01                   ` Ken Brown
2012-03-30 11:36                 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-03-31 10:29                   ` Jon TURNEY
2012-03-31 15:27                     ` Ken Brown
2012-04-01  6:07                       ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2012-04-01 13:36                         ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-02 12:05                       ` Ken Brown
2012-04-02 16:06                         ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2012-04-02 21:14                         ` Ken Brown
2012-04-02 22:50                           ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-04-01 13:40                     ` Jon TURNEY
2012-03-28  9:35 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)

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