From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25183 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2012 13:27:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 25064 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Apr 2012 13:27:01 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_TX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.143) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:26:40 +0000 Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by soapstone1.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3ODQa7Y014574 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:26:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q3ODQYOb022790 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:26:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F96A9FF.7090005@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:27:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree Subject: Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch References: <4F855BAC.7010809@cs.umass.edu> <4F955E58.8060403@dronecode.org.uk> <4F956F70.4080900@cornell.edu> <4F96946A.4070406@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F96946A.4070406@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Tue Apr 24 09:26:35 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00088.txt.bz2 On 4/24/2012 7:54 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 23/04/2012 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: >>> I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to >>> the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur >>> while fork/exec-ing them. >> >> Would it be possible for you to also add some code for diagnosing problems with processes started from .startxwinrc? I'm hoping it might help with the problem I reported in >> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00050.html > > Hmm.. not sure code is really needed. You can see the output from startxwin > by running it from a terminal, or capture it by changing the shortcut which > runs it to something like the following (perhaps we should do that by default) > > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe >>> /var/log/xwin/startxwin.log 2>&1' That doesn't help, but I'll reply to my original thread to explain why. I shouldn't have interjected my question into this thread. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/