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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Carlo.DiCocco@dfs.ny.gov
Subject: Re: Fatal Error (Segmentation Fault) only while viewing the LVM GUI
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F99922B.1040301@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F994C66.4090808@dronecode.org.uk>
On 26/04/2012 14:23, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 26/04/2012 14:18, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 25/04/2012 19:25, Carlo.DiCocco wrote:
>>> I think I may have found a bug. I am connecting to a remote Linux server
>>> from my Windows desktop and attempting to use some of the GUI tools on the
>>> remote server. The "xclock" GUI displays fine. The Oracle "dbca" GUI
>>> displays fine. The LVM "system-config-lvm" GUI displays and works fine,
>>> but cygwin generates a fatal error window due to a segmentation fault.
>>
>>> The following command displays the GUI, but reports a fatal error:
>>>
>>> [root@aorahdev ~]# system-config-lvm
>>
>>> [ 64144.546] Segmentation fault at address 0x44
>>> [ 64144.546] Fatal server error:
>>> [ 64144.546] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>>> [ 64144.546] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this problem.
>>
>> I was not able to reproduce this crash using system-config-lvm 1.1.16, on
>> Fedora 15. Perhaps you can provide details on the remote server and
>> system-config-lvm version you are using?
>>
>> It would be very helpful if you could follow the instructions at [1] to use
>> gdb to get a backtrace for the X server when it crashes.
>
> Oops
>
> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html
It seems quite likely this is the same crash as reported at [1], so it's
probably worth testing X server 1.12.0-5 to see if it's fixed there, first.
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00097.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 18:22 Carlo.DiCocco
2012-04-26 13:18 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-26 13:23 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-26 18:21 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2012-04-27 12:38 Carlo.DiCocco
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