Yes, it is a crash at startup. I could not find XWin.exe.stackdump anywhere on my hard drive. I have attached the bat script (renamed into .txt) used to start cygwin/X, maybe I need to modify it. Would it work to add CYGWIN='error_start=c:\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe' in the system environment (meaning, via the control panel), to have a core file that I could then open with gdb?