Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

[Greg Lane <gregory dot lane at anu dot edu dot au>]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:49:23AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Well then, has anyone on this list had xfs running properly under
> > cygwin?
> I just tried it yesterday on WindowsME, it works for me.  You probably
> will want to check to see if XP is running any services on the same port. 
> Also, it may have something to do with your security, but don't ask me
> about the whole NT security deal, as I have no experience dealing with it.
>  It seems like a big headache to me, more hassle then good...
> 

I checked to see if there was anything listening on 7100 before starting xfs
and there wasn't. I also checked the firewall settings (as suggested by
Jeremy in the next mail in the thread) and the firewall is not active. 
(In any case I know xfs sees something because it doesn't crash until I
try to access it over the network!)

I doubt its either the firewall or security settings because I have an old
win98 partition on my home workstation and went and installed cygwin on
that. I get exactly the same error. At the first access, it core dumps. 

I must be doing something stupid. I have tried to run xfs from 

1) a bash shell (no X running) 
2) within X after starting up X both
   i) from startx in a bash shell 
  ii) with the startxwin.bat script.

I just type xfs. It sits there waiting. All looks good.

Then I have tried pointing my font path to it (with xset fp= ...) 
from a number of sources

1) remote machine running freebsd
2) from cygwin x-server on the same machine
3) from XWinPro on the machine

It crashes _straight_ away. The stackdump is attached below for what it's
worth.

Could you enlighten me as to the way you ran xfs when it worked for you?
Are you running XFree86 4.2?

I am at a complete loss. I must be doing something wrong, but I have 
no idea what it is!

Thanks for the help guys! I am willing to try anything anyone asks 
to get it running!!

Greg



Stackdump:

Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0040EBDD
eax=1028A910 ebx=00000001 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=0022FE08
ebp=0022FE10 esp=0022FDA8 program=C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xfs.exe
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0022FE10  0040EBDD  (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
End of stack trace