From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24830 invoked by alias); 3 Mar 2020 22:20:49 -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 24823 invoked by uid 89); 3 Mar 2020 22:20:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=trial, fam, H*i:sk:a4be5f3, H*f:sk:a4be5f3 X-HELO: seine.is.ed.ac.uk Received: from seine.is.ed.ac.uk (HELO seine.is.ed.ac.uk) (129.215.17.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:20:47 +0000 Received: from crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.202.41]) by seine.is.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 023MKhpX024938 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:20:43 GMT Received: from ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.24.151]) by crunchie.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 023MKgS6013745 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:20:42 GMT Received: from ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 023MKhm3025648 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:20:43 GMT Received: (from ht@localhost) by ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 023MKg3X025647; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:20:42 GMT To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates References: <345b8a7a-bcbb-450b-08c0-943f3bb3b683@astrofoto.org> <20200303185335.5f4369c163b3a4b241ef429d@nifty.ne.jp> <20200303213524.5ddf37854e2eb85eca50ed96@nifty.ne.jp> <20200303215912.6c72af3e17e8ef0f0f58b8a6@nifty.ne.jp> From: "Henry S. Thompson" Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 01:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Brian Inglis's message of "Tue\, 3 Mar 2020 14\:43\:30 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1012 (Gnus v5.10.12) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at seine.is.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.84, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-03/txt/msg00061.txt 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 -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- 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