Applications no longer launching from xdg

Applications no longer launching from xdg

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

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I installed Windows 10 over the weekend ("RTM" release 10240, 64-bit,
Pro).  Cygwin, X server and XDG were working fine until sometime
Sunday afternoon.  Suddenly, I could not launch xterms, but still
could from the old Xwin icon in the system notification area.  Nothing
works from XDG (other than exit), not even viewing the logfile.  I
have no idea what could have caused this.  Any ideas?

I even tried uninstalling xinit and two xdg modules, then
re-installing them, but that didn't work.  In fact, I lost the
Cygwin-X menu in the Start folder, so now I can't even start the X
server from there.

Thanks - Jim

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us

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Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

One somewhat unrelated thing I'd like to add:  Once the 'X' icon
appears, it takes another good 20 seconds or so for the xdg menu icon
to appear.  I have no idea what's causing that.

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Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

[Jon TURNEY]

On 20/07/2015 06:06, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I installed Windows 10 over the weekend ("RTM" release 10240, 64-bit,
> Pro).  Cygwin, X server and XDG were working fine until sometime
> Sunday afternoon.  Suddenly, I could not launch xterms, but still
> could from the old Xwin icon in the system notification area.  Nothing
> works from XDG (other than exit), not even viewing the logfile.  I
> have no idea what could have caused this.  Any ideas?
>
> I even tried uninstalling xinit and two xdg modules, then
> re-installing them, but that didn't work.  In fact, I lost the
> Cygwin-X menu in the Start folder, so now I can't even start the X
> server from there.

I assume you are talking about the xdg-menu here.

I've done some testing on the Windows 10 TP x86_64, but I can't 
reproduce this problem.

If you can reproduce this problem, you could always examine the 
~/.xsession-errors file directly.

On 20/07/2015 06:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> One somewhat unrelated thing I'd like to add:  Once the 'X' icon
> appears, it takes another good 20 seconds or so for the xdg menu icon
> to appear.  I have no idea what's causing that.

This is unfortunately normal.  A lot of work needs to take place to 
construct the menu, tracking down the .menu and .desktop files, 
interpreting their contents and locating icons.

Of course, if someone wants to do some profiling and optimizing, that 
would be great :D

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Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:

> If you can reproduce this problem, you could always examine the
> ~/.xsession-errors file directly.

Here it is.  There "Can't create dir" messages have been there all
along.  The ones regarding "Failed to connect to socket" may be the
problem.

Could not change to root directory: Permission denied
Failed to start message bus: Could not chdir() to root directory
EOF reading PID from bus daemon
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Desktop
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Downloads
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Templates
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Public
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Documents
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Music
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Pictures
Can't create dir /cygdrive/D/Home/Videos


Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-Jim Reisert/fam-

(process:10328): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=3

Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-Jim Reisert/fam-

(process:10328): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=3



  I went in and cleaned out the entire /tmp directory, no change.
This is what's in there now:

drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Jim Reisert None         0 Jul 24 07:59 .
drw-rwx---+ 1 Jim Reisert None         0 Jul 22 21:20 ..
-r-----r--  1 Jim Reisert Jim Reisert 11 Jul 24 07:58 .X0-lock
drwx---rwt+ 1 Jim Reisert Jim Reisert  0 Jul 24 07:58 .X11-unix



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Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

This seems to be the real error, when I try to start an xterm from the xdg menu:

executing 'xterm', pid 11044
pid 11044 exited with status b

What is status b?


And the results of trying to view the log file (same error status)

executing 'xterm -title '/cygdrive/D/Home/.xsession-errors' -e less +F
/cygdrive/D/Home/.xsession-errors', pid 10712
pid 10712 exited with status b

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Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

[Jon TURNEY]

On 24/07/2015 15:14, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> This seems to be the real error, when I try to start an xterm from the xdg menu:
>
> executing 'xterm', pid 11044
> pid 11044 exited with status b
>
> What is status b?

Status 11, but in hexadecimal :)

I'm not sure this is a valid exit status, which is perplexing.

Taken in conjunction with the other mesages in ~/.xsession-errors, 
something is not right, but I don't know what.

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