From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26912 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2015 21:40:53 -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 26893 invoked by uid 89); 24 Feb 2015 21:40:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:40:51 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E890220E55 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:40:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:40:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [31.51.205.191]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EC7F8C0029D; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:40:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <54ECEFDC.5080107@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:50:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu, gbarrick@kent.edu Subject: Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2. References: <54ECD29B.7050001@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <54ECD29B.7050001@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 On 24/02/2015 19:35, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 24/02/2015 19:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: >> >>> The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now >>> crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use. Since this issue does >>> not get reported in xwin.0.log or xwin.0.log.old, I do not yet >>> know how to provide more information. >> >> I have seen this also. It only happens on my PC at home, if I leave it >> alone for hours on end. It's not nearly as frequent as 5-10 minutes. >> I need to check the log files again, but I don't remember seeing >> anything there the first time I looked. > > With regard to the crash problems, can you please try the instructions > at [1] to generate a backtrace. > > [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html Possibly this was xlaunch deciding that the X server hasn't started successfully after ~12 minutes or so, and killing it. So don't bother, unless you have crash problems after upgrading to xlaunch-20150224-1, or when not using xlaunch. -- 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/