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Re: XWin with "rootless" option crashes on Vista
Jon,
Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
> rincewind wrote:
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
>>
>> Please try completely uninstalling the Logitech software, make sure
>> you're running the current versions of Cygwin and X11, and try again.
>
> Your reply seems to be missing "I've tried uninstalling this and the
> problem
> remains" :-)
>
> Rincewind>> For the record, Yes :-). I uninstalled the logitech drivers
> and I still see the problem. Thanks for the tip on how to obtain a
> backtrace. I am hoping to use the binaries you provided and obtain a
> trace. Thanks for your time.
>
> Regards,
> Rincewind
>
>> Thanks for taking a look into my message. I have uploaded the relevant
>> files
>> (cygcheck and xwin.0.log). I am able to see some differences between the
>> Xwin.log entries of successful (multiwindow) version and the failed
>> (rootless) version. But perhaps they are directly related to the
>> multiwindow
>> and rootless options themselves.
>>
>> Is there a way I could obtain a stack trace of the crashing process on
>> vista
>> ??
>
> [install gdb package]
> $ gdb --args XWin <X-command-line-arguments>
> [...]
> (gdb) run
> [...]
> (gdb) bt full
>
> To get something useful you'll probably want to use the unstripped binary
> I've
> made specially for you at [1]
>
> The instructions in the contributors guide [2] should clearly explain the
> process of building the X server from source.
>
> [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin-1.5.3-5.exe.bz2
> [2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/cygwin-x-cg.html
>
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