From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 01:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5btv35gjwl.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4be5f3f-3713-09b9-1aeb-383f9a3ac194@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (Brian Inglis's message of "Tue\, 3 Mar 2020 14\:43\:30 -0700")
Brian Inglis writes:
>> 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.
Ah, interesting.
> 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-
> srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 08:47 /tmp/dbus-QdAWXiPC8F=
> ...
Just stopping sshd didn't do it, I did eventually have to kill all 4 of
my services (cron, cygserver, exim, sshd).
But, I only did one trial after stopping each one, starting with sshd,
so this isn't definitive...
ht
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-03 22:20 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
2020-03-04 1:12 ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
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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