From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4be5f3f-3713-09b9-1aeb-383f9a3ac194@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5b36apicb6.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk>
On 2020-03-03 10:21, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Takashi Yano writes:
>
>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:40:17 +0000
>> "Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
>>> Takashi Yano writes:
>>>> This bug was already fixed in current git head.
>>>
>>> Current git head for Cygwin? Or mintty?
>>
>> I mean cygwin.
>
> OK, this is now getting very weird. As at least one other person
> reported, the problem is intermittent, with both my systems, both on
> 3.1.4 Cygwin and 3.1.4 mintty.
>
> Two further shots in the dark:
>
> 1) I tried to run cygcheck -s while there was an XWin + sh hang, as
> previously reported. It hung also. Process Explorer shows
>
> bash.exe
> bash.exe
> cygcheck.exe
> id.exe
>
> I can use strace to attach to it, and it is indeed
> [cygdir]\bin\id.exe, showing lots of dll loads, then a thread being
> created and exiting happily, last two lines are
>
> thread nnn created
> _cygtls::remove: wait 0
>
> Mystery
>
> So, try connecting strace to the hung sh process...
>
> [Nothing :-[
>
> Connecting to it with gdb shows various threads, but ^C doesn't
> achieve anything.
>
> 2) There are some hints that cygrunsrv/cygserver might be implicated.
> Two cygchecks on one of my machines (which did run to completion)
> differ in that the one taken while XWin had started successfully
> differed from the other in that all my Cygwin services (cron,
> cygserver, sshd, and exim) were stopped,
> In the other, a case of XWin hang, they were all running.
>
> On my other system after several fails in a row, I stopped all my
> services and XWin launched successfully.
>
> Grasping at straws here, but I have one machine sitting in a hung state,
> and other debugging ideas welcome...
XWin startup takes different paths depending on whether you have sshd running or
not. I also have cygserver defined with max supported threads, as I have cron
jobs which need them. I can often get multiwindow X to launch from mintty with
sshd disabled, after deleting:
$ llgo -AR /tmp/.X* /tmp/dbus-* /tmp/fam-$USER/fam-
-r--r--r-- 1 11 Mar 2 00:20 /tmp/.X0-lock
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 14:27 /tmp/dbus-5P1mCxSjEA=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 00:20 /tmp/dbus-JEIRS3qks6=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 12:34 /tmp/dbus-K5HWAHFshg=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 3 10:34 /tmp/dbus-pvf4OTaHDu=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 08:47 /tmp/dbus-QdAWXiPC8F=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 14:01 /tmp/dbus-TFjEzRHU4c=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 14:26 /tmp/dbus-VsXRfGI5GT=
srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 12:37 /tmp/dbus-Zo1S6Q5MSG=
srw------- 1 0 Mar 2 00:20 /tmp/fam-$USER/fam-=
/tmp/.X11-unix:
total 1.0K
srw-rw-rw- 1 0 Mar 2 00:20 X0=
-rw------- 1 0 Mar 2 00:20 X0.lock
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-03 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-03 5:14 Roland Roberts
2020-03-03 9:53 ` Takashi Yano
2020-03-03 12:18 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-03-03 12:35 ` Takashi Yano
2020-03-03 12:40 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-03-03 12:59 ` Takashi Yano
2020-03-03 21:43 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-03-03 22:20 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-03 23:25 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2020-03-04 1:12 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-03-03 23:46 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-03-04 19:05 ` Brian Inglis
2020-03-04 19:05 ` Henry S. Thompson
2020-03-04 8:59 ` Roland Roberts
2020-03-08 2:14 ` Roland Roberts
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