Re: XWin.exe crashes on Windows restart

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 10/09/2013 22:16, Andreas Girgensohn wrote:
> I start XWin.exe via a shortcut when logging into Windows 7 (64-bit).
> Recently, I replaced my Cygwin installation with the 64-bit version.
> Now, XWin.exe crashes (SIGSEGV) every time I restart or shutdown
> Windows.
> 
> I produced a gdb backtrace by cancelling the restart quickly after the
> problem occurred.  Additional files are attached.
> 
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  0x00000001004071ea in winMsgWindowProc (hwnd=<optimized out>,
> message=<optimized out>,
>     wParam=<optimized out>, lParam=<optimized out>)
>     at /usr/src/debug/xorg-server-1.14.2-2/hw/xwin/winmsgwindow.c:58
>         pScreen = <optimized out>
>         hwnd = <optimized out>
>         message = 22
>         wParam = <optimized out>
>         lParam = <optimized out>
> #1  0x0000000077139bd1 in USER32!TranslateMessageEx ()
>    from /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/USER32.dll
> No symbol table info available.
> #2  0x000000000000050c in ?? ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #3  0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #4  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> No symbol table info available.

Thanks for reporting this problem, and providing the backtrace.

I've added a patch which should fix this crash and uploaded a snapshot at [1].
Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?

[1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.x86_64.20130911-git-0919b42581c05bf8.exe.bz2

> On a different note, when running gdb, I noticed that XWin.exe twice
> receives a SIGSYS when starting.  That does not affect normal
> operations.

This is expected when cygserver (which provides SySV shared memory) is not
running, as the X server tests to see if shared memory is available before
using it, by checking if shmget() causes a SIGSYS...

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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