From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33464 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2016 06:31:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 33444 invoked by uid 89); 19 Aug 2016 06:31:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=messina, Hx-languages-length:1675, H*i:sk:DM5PR17, H*f:sk:DM5PR17 X-HELO: mail-wm0-f42.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f42.google.com) (74.125.82.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:31:42 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id o80so25693187wme.1 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:31:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OwubrIvrHeLbK7S5pHr8u4YpZwbkGTIc/aCLONLAC60=; b=fxkxIzE8o68X8LZkZtBC3fPNf9FZgvZbnMnMMXvMUhlJVsiI/Q0JBAH7ChFYnN6NFb LbRbrAhgpB0bfRgjJZq6fpcdOZlwSLXWt1YPO1QikVYQjMoJVDU39+V7JdghOKFSnQt9 2buMBvrQ9SpAIbuv+JIM1ZMOakMyWMxJNmso5YHJmNptxzQJFFBM0X5hbyKTBlvUH48r TqmL+S8ZmVyvD0DdgfwqX6rH+G1tKZvMybqayPwig2lHAtEeTe7Ff8Q6YVyUZH/b/Bb/ +znqDpIn18/1rps42vQAyPYXvUHJkJkbLIsafjW6pqPG7Rwl8JpAYQa1u+CxOFiDP4am Ns1g== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoousps571m5Wkr0ErwLJY3micrNfE9N0n9Bl8m1FGreX4xEoNoOSIbyEDnyjcVsOp9A== X-Received: by 10.194.89.73 with SMTP id bm9mr5489862wjb.76.1471588300188; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.10.2] (ip-2-206-2-227.web.vodafone.de. [2.206.2.227]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id n2sm5537881wjd.1.2016.08.18.23.31.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: issues with startxwin not loading x windows To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <1f81c96e-6ba2-b842-1f3e-24f785579bec@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:09:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 On 18/08/2016 20:37, michael messina wrote: > > I recently switched from a windows 7 laptop to windows 10 at work here; I had cygwin 64 working with metacity as my preferred frontend for x windows with no problems. Inexplicably on the 16th it ceased functioning. I attempted a reinstall and instead, now I get is a black popup momentarily, then nothing happens. Enclosed are various log files/etc. > > I cannot unfortunately give my cygcheck.out without giving away a lot of internal corporate information so that was redacted since it's absolutely necessary. That said, all of the various packages said 'ok' for them. I've had my trend micro office scan administrator add my pc's C:\cygwin64 folder to the exceptions section of the configuration. Also scanned the hard drive/FS for filesystem on windows; nothing found. > > I cannot boot into safe mode because of bitlocker. > > So enclosed is my redacted cygcheck.out; my xsessions.error file from 8/16, my xwin.0 file, and a copy of the gdb output. > > Interestingly when I try to do a strace on it, I just get 'segmentation fault' as the output. Output log file is empty. > > I'm baffled here and being mostly pure linux, I kind of live and die by my cygwin instance. > Any thoughts here? Please note neither opening the terminal and typing any variation of startxwin, xwin, startx, or using any start menu icons for x windows will produce anything but the described result of nothing happening Though at least from a terminal window I get some output before it refuses to start like this: > the problem is Micro Trend: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00228.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple