From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10210 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2013 11:58:52 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 10201 invoked by uid 89); 31 Jul 2013 11:58:52 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO nm4-vm1.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com) (212.82.99.119) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:58:50 +0000 Received: from [212.82.98.41] by nm4.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Jul 2013 11:58:42 -0000 Received: from [77.238.189.19] by tm2.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Jul 2013 11:58:42 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp819.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Jul 2013 11:58:42 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: u.JgLvyswBBMp9ZJJfsX14qmYb3T2ivhMAr6OupnxLpNQEFZ9g-- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.72] (jon.turney@109.155.7.202 with plain) by smtp819.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2013 11:58:42 +0000 GMT Message-ID: <51F8FBFB.9010706@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:58:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: Jim Reisert AD1C Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.22 calls dumper when starting X References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On 30/07/2013 18:33, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I have the latest version of Cygwin (using setup-x86). I see the same > problem on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 systems. > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 LTDEN-REISERT 1.7.22(0.268/5/3) 2013-07-22 17:06 i686 Cygwin > > Here is how I am starting X: > > C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe > > When I run this command, a dumper console window pops up with this error: > > "failed to open file: No such file or directory" You're getting the dumper because you have 'error_start=C:\Cygwin\bin\dumper.exe' in your CYGWIN environment variable and something is crashing... > I had not seen this before updating setup to setup-x86 and installing > the latest code. The console window goes away by itself, and XWin > seems to have started normally, I.e. I get the 'X' in my system tray > and can launch programs from it. I can't reproduce this. Can you try downgrading to run-1.2.0 and see if the problem still exists, that seems to have caused some people problems [1] [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00532.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/