From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 127092 invoked by alias); 18 May 2015 17:09:23 -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 127081 invoked by uid 89); 18 May 2015 17:09:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: huan1.mail.rambler.ru Received: from huan1.mail.rambler.ru (HELO huan1.mail.rambler.ru) (81.19.66.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 18 May 2015 17:09:21 +0000 Received: from [UNAVAILABLE] ([131.159.47.15]:33001) by huan1.mail.rambler.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1YuOXU-0002k1-TZ for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 18 May 2015 20:09:17 +0300 Message-ID: <555A1CBC.9060500@ro.ru> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:16:00 -0000 From: Jaakov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: run.exe fails to start XWin in Windows 8.1 References: <1430595148.25446.15748.6314@mail.rambler.ru> <555A16B6.1060506@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <555A16B6.1060506@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rambler-User: jaakov@ro.ru/131.159.47.15 X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 >> While executing the command "Xwin Server" from Windows 8.1, the server >> won't start. Apparently, the executed command is >> >> C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; >> /usr/bin/startxwin" >> >> The file C:\cygwin64\run.exe.stackdump is produced. Instead I expect, >> however, an X server process and an xterm window. >> >> On the other hand, starting first "Cygwin64 terminal" does create a text >> console shell, and running >> startxwin & >> >> from this shell does give me an X server process and an xterm window. >> >> A complete removal of the C:\cygwin64 directory and reinstalling did not >> help. Afterwards, reinstalling xinit did not help. >> >> This issue persists for a few months already. Last year, XWin started >> without problems. > > Unfortunately, the stackdump in your previous report [1] didn't quite > contain enough information to investigate this problem. I've made a > small improvement in how the stackdumps are made [2] since then, so if > you can upgrade and provide the stackdump file, perhaps we can discover > why this crash is happening. > > [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-03/msg00117.html > [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2015-q1/msg00018.html > Great, I'll test it as soon as possible! -- 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