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Re: X server crash when running texworks
On 28/03/2012 13:44, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> I'm afraid I can't reproduce your issue, but looking at the backtrace
>>> and the
>>> somewhat intermittent nature of the fault, I think perhaps this crash is
>>> caused by a race condition which exists in the conversion of the
>>> window icon
>>> from an X property to a Windows icon.
>>>
>>> I've uploaded a snapshot with some fixes for that at [1], perhaps you
>>> could
>>> try that out and see if it helps?
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120328-git-ab32650607c59327.exe.bz2
>>
>> Yes, that seems to fix it. I just started texworks and compiled 6 or 7
>> tex documents without a crash. I've never been able to do more than 1 or
>> 2 before.
Good.
> I spoke too soon. I closed texworks and was doing other things (not even
> involving X to my knowledge), and the X server just crashed. I'm attaching
> XWin.0.log.
Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway.
I found a rather bad crash bug I'd introduced and fixed that, so you might
want to try today's snapshot [1], but I'm not confident that I fixed the
problem you saw, so a backtrace would be helpful if you still get crashes.
[1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120329-git-6d4583d53c249549.exe.bz2
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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