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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Subject: Re: segfault in xwin-xdg-menu.exe
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 14:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80298918-f7ae-d4a3-d120-fe526dc28443@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1904055421.570427.1526059466228@mail.libero.it>

On 11/05/2018 18:24, Fabio Rossi wrote:
>> Il 11 maggio 2018 alle 19.12 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> ha scritto:
>>
>> On 5/11/2018 11:29 AM, Fabio Rossi wrote:
>>
>>> I have just made a fresh cygwin installation on windows 10 pro 32bit using setup 2.891. I have selected xorg-server, xinit, vim and gdb packages. I have modified the Xwin server configuration as described in https://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-startxwinrc-exit and later I have successfully started it by using the action "cygwin-x\xwin server" under Windows programs menu. The X server is running with display :0.0 and its icon is visible in the tray bar.
>>>
>>> On another system installed months ago I have the xdg menu application already running (it's automatically started by the xwin startup script) but I didn't need to follow the above mentioned trick described in the FAQ.
>>>
>>> In a cygwin terminal I then try starting manually xwin-xdg-menu by using:
>>>
>>> $ DISPLAY=:0 xwin-xdg-menu.exe
>>>
>>> but I get a segmentation fault. With gdb I get the following backtrace:
>>>
[...]
>>>
>>> It seems a problem with fontconfig. Any hint?
>>
>> Could it be the same problem as this?
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00325.html
>>
> 
> Thanks for the reference, it seems the same problem. I have tried stracing the problem, but I don't see a clear failure in the trace log. The size is quite large, it's ~ 245 kB when bzipped, if someone is interested I can post it somewhere later.
> 

Yeah, this is the same problem, which is under investigation.

See also https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-05/msg00152.html for another 
workaround.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-12 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-11 15:38 Fabio Rossi
2018-05-11 15:54 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-05-11 16:26   ` Fabio Rossi
2018-05-11 16:46     ` Marco Atzeri
2018-05-11 17:25 ` Ken Brown
2018-05-11 20:28   ` Fabio Rossi
2018-05-12 14:43     ` Jon Turney [this message]
2018-05-14 12:35       ` Fabio Rossi
2018-05-14 21:50         ` Jon Turney

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