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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Leon Meier <Leon.Meier@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: How to debug XWin starting only sometimes?
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 12:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3028db88-bfce-734f-fa26-0438d95e51c9@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f551e8d-9f2a-27d4-119f-13f4a7ddb155@yandex.ru>

On 01/05/2017 16:19, Leon Meier wrote:
> When starting "XWin Server" though the windows shortcut, it sometimes
> won't start; other times it will.

Sorry to hear that you are having this problem.

[...]
> Any hints who may be the culprit and/or how to debug the issue?

It might be useful to compare the logs between an successful and 
unsuccessful startup attempt.  The differences might be a useful clue.

 > In /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log.old we see
 >
 > [   775,375] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Fatal error 1 on xcb connection

I'm guessing that perhaps this was from an unsuccessful previous run? 
In which case I would be interested to see the whole log.

-- 
Jon Turney
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-02 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-01 15:20 Leon Meier
2017-05-01 20:37 ` Ian Lambert via cygwin
2017-05-02 12:59 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2017-05-03 22:44   ` Леон Майер
2017-05-03 22:51     ` How to debug XWin starting only sometimes? (Typo removed) Леон Майер

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