From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45753 invoked by alias); 1 May 2015 20:40:19 -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 45742 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2015 20:40:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 01 May 2015 20:40:18 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B372086F for ; Fri, 1 May 2015 16:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 01 May 2015 16:40:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [86.179.113.23]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 19CD6C0001C; Fri, 1 May 2015 16:40:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5543E4AC.5010304@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:39:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Brown , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.17.1-3 References: <5542AA7E.5070504@cornell.edu> <55436A0A.2010603@dronecode.org.uk> <554374FF.7060708@cornell.edu> <5543C3C5.1060003@dronecode.org.uk> <5543E14A.1010802@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <5543E14A.1010802@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 On 01/05/2015 21:25, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/1/2015 2:19 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> On 01/05/2015 13:43, Ken Brown wrote: >>> On 5/1/2015 7:56 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>>> On 30/04/2015 23:19, Ken Brown wrote: >>>>> I'm finding, on three different 64-bit Cygwin systems, that the server >>>>> dies shortly after starting. I'm attaching XWin.0.log from one of >>>>> them. [...] >> >> I don't quite understand why cygwin's exception processing doesn't then >> catch that exception and raise a SIGSEGV. >> >> However, I did a bit more staring at the changes in 1.17.1-3 and I did >> find a nasty bug in some code which uses the heap. I've uploaded a >> snapshot [1] with a possible fix, please test that if you can. > > That fixes it. Thanks. No problem. Thanks for testing, and thanks for reporting the bug! I've uploaded 1.17.1-4 with this fix. -- 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