here's the backlog also the xwin log attached again, no idea if it would be different from this run, but just being thorough. #0 0x64acb60e in ?? () from /cygdrive/c/windows/SysWOW64/ig7icd32.dll No symbol table info available. #1 0x64abec75 in ?? () from /cygdrive/c/windows/SysWOW64/ig7icd32.dll No symbol table info available. #2 0x64afde43 in ?? () from /cygdrive/c/windows/SysWOW64/ig7icd32.dll No symbol table info available. #3 0x00000001 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x6d011e00 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #5 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #6 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #7 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #8 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #9 0x00000010 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #10 0x00000008 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #11 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. On 6/11/2013 9:07 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 11/06/2013 02:03, Karl K. Berggren wrote: >> I get the following error when I run startxwin from a cygwin (1.7.20) prompt >> on my windows 8 surface tablet >> >> "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit >> >> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting > Thanks for reporting this problem. > > Please can you obtain a backtrace using the method under "Generating a > backtrace when the X server is crashing at startup" in [1]? > > [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html >