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From: Nem W Schlecht <nem@emptec.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: xterm crashing when trying to access Ctrl-<mouse click> menu items
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+2x6-+RKs3B6wbwLMeXDXiwpmNwNdTCVQHyoZbFaKuR0TBU9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5370A3BB.8080300@dronecode.org.uk>
Thanks for the reply, Jon! I'm happy you were able to reproduce the
issue - I assumed I had screwed something up in my environment. :)
Your attempted fix with rebase worked perfectly - all of my menus are
now working correctly. If you'd like me to do any additional testing
in the future, don't hesitate to ask.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 19:39, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
>>
>> For over a month now I've been having issues with my xterms in Cygwin.
>> If I try to access *any* menu item under the Ctrl-<mouse button> menu
>> items (change font, turn on/off scrollbar, redraw window, etc.), my
>> xterm crashes the moment I un-press my mouse button. I don't access
>> them all that often, so I don't know how long the issue has been
>> around, but it's been a couple of months now.
>>
>> I've tried launching it with an empty .Xdefaults file (home dir) and
>> by moving my .bashrc/.bash_profile files out of the way - still the
>> same result. I've also gone out and downloaded the latest XTerm code
>> and have a version compiled with debugging, but my C skills are really
>> rusty and I'm not seeing anything terribly useful in gdb (I set my
>> CYGWIN env var to "error_start=dumper -d %1 %2" so I would get core
>> dumps). I compiled a version with a different "DEFCLASS" set so that
>> I *know* it's not a bad resource or resource file.
>>
>> I'm running 64 bit on Windows 7. More details in the attached
>> cygcheck.out.
>>
>> Anybody else on 64bit Cygwin / Win 7 having the same issues?
>
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue. I can reproduce it.
>
> This appears to be an issue with Xt, as a Cygwin-specific patch does not
> work correctly on x86_64 when another DLL which is using Xt is loaded >2GB
> away from it.
>
> Until we have a fix, you *might* be able to work around this by rebasing the
> DLLs, e.g. in the specific case of xterm, which uses Xaw:
>
> cd /usr/bin
> rebase -v -b 0x400000000 cygXt-6.dll
> rebase -v -b 0x410000000 cygXaw-7.dll
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 18:39 Nem W Schlecht
2014-05-12 10:34 ` Jon TURNEY
2014-05-12 14:37 ` Nem W Schlecht [this message]
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