From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27294 invoked by alias); 2 May 2017 12:59:29 -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 27279 invoked by uid 89); 2 May 2017 12:59:29 -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_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=clue, Meier, meier, hear X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 May 2017 12:59:28 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABFF20748; Tue, 2 May 2017 08:59:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 02 May 2017 08:59:28 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-207-210.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.207.210]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 63DA9240A5; Tue, 2 May 2017 08:59:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: How to debug XWin starting only sometimes? References: <3f551e8d-9f2a-27d4-119f-13f4a7ddb155@yandex.ru> Cc: Leon Meier To: The Cygwin Mailing List From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <3028db88-bfce-734f-fa26-0438d95e51c9@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 12:59:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3f551e8d-9f2a-27d4-119f-13f4a7ddb155@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-05/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 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 -- 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