From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1061 invoked by alias); 12 May 2014 14:37:58 -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 981 invoked by uid 89); 12 May 2014 14:37:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wg0-f47.google.com Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f47.google.com) (74.125.82.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 12 May 2014 14:37:55 +0000 Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id x12so6822164wgg.18 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 07:37:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.195.17.169 with SMTP id gf9mr295599wjd.10.1399905472044; Mon, 12 May 2014 07:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.23.161 with HTTP; Mon, 12 May 2014 07:37:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5370A3BB.8080300@dronecode.org.uk> References: <5370A3BB.8080300@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: xterm crashing when trying to access Ctrl- menu items From: Nem W Schlecht To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 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 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- 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 -- Nem W Schlecht nem@emptec.com Empyreal Technologies http://www.emptec.com/ "Perl did the magic. I just waved the wand." -- 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/