From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7776 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2011 17:14:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 7760 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Nov 2011 17:14:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-yx0-f171.google.com) (209.85.213.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:14:06 +0000 Received: by yenm6 with SMTP id m6so1614762yen.2 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:14:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.135.40 with SMTP id pp8mr15620679igb.1.1321895644978; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.169.69 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:14:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze From: Jim Reisert AD1C To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 I have a persistent problem at work after XWin has been running for a while (sometimes hours, sometimes days). Windows programs will spontaneously freeze I am running Windows XP SP3 on a Dell Latitude D810 laptop (Intel T7200 @ 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM). I typically run MS Outlook 2007, some form of Firefox (either release or beta), and Citrix (remote-access software), all at the same time, though I have run the various flavors of VNC (Real, Tight, Tiger) in the past. Graphics is an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M with two monitors connected (one digital, one analog), using the 197.68 driver. What happens is that windows will spontaneously freeze. For example, I'm composing a message in Outlook, and all of a sudden, my keyboard stops responding, then I'll get the Windows hourglass in that window. Or I'll be surfing in Firefox and window changes just stop, again hourglass. Once this happens, killing XWin.exe from the task manager immediately releases the hang condition(s), though the hang may release itself if I wait several minutes (yeah, right). At this point, I can re-start XWin, but later on, it will happen again. I'm starting XWin.exe from the install shortcut: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe I'm running the latest of Cygwin everything, the problem has been across several (many) releases of the Xorg server. I think it's using the default options for multi-monitor, cut/paste, etc. I can usually copy/paste between XWin and MS Windows (and usually Citrix) without any problems. I keep thinking that the problem is something in the XWin code that interfaces to Windows' copy/paste engine (OLE?). Is there any way to debug this problem? It would be great to get it resolved. Thanks - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- 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/