From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10622 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2012 21:45:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 10613 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Apr 2012 21:45:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from post1.cgd.ucar.edu (HELO post1.cgd.ucar.edu) (128.117.21.229) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:45:08 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cgdisleroyale.cgd.ucar.edu [128.117.22.109]) by post1.cgd.ucar.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8707AD for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:45:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4F98705E.6010204@ucar.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:45:00 -0000 From: Keith Lindsay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X segmentation fault when particular application attempts to open a window References: <4F985C8A.6020209@ucar.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F985C8A.6020209@ucar.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00100.txt.bz2 On 4/25/2012 2:20 PM, Keith Lindsay wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a data analysis program called ferret on a remote machine > that I've logged on to with "ssh -X". When the program attempts to > create a window, the Cygwin/X server crashes with a segmentation fault. > The seg fault is reproducible. > > xclock works fine from the same remote machine. > > This is with version 1.12.0-4 of xorg-server. > > ferret has worked with some previous versions of the Cygwin/X server, > but I'm not certain about the precise version where the breakage > occurred. I backed up one version and encountered the same problem. > > I've attached the output of "cygcheck -c", the file > /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log, and the output of a gdb that is attached to > the XWin process when it crashes. > > I'm at a loss about how to proceed further. > I welcome any advice that you can provide. > > Thank you, > Keith Lindsay Hi again, I realized that I can back up to other versions of xorg-server by installing from the local directory that contains previous version downloads. I have discovered that ferret works fine with version 1.12.0-1 of xorg-server (built 2012-03-12) and generates the segmentation violation with version 1.12.0-2 (built 2012-04-04). Keith -- 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/