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Re: Fwd: XServer crashes on startup: Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting.
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: ajbeaulieu at gmail dot com
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:03:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fwd: XServer crashes on startup: Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting.
- References: <CAKGPAH5+GWVSTWAUb7okzXCgVyRhiP81Gez7iKkh9jY9FG7qDQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAKGPAH7yfT-e0WOg1LarxPZKZFBRRbyQuwEM5fGqbeKogxK_QQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13/06/2012 01:16, Aaron Beaulieu wrote:
> On a fresh install of cygwin/X on a Windows 7 machine, attempting to
> start xwin -multiwindow (Package: version 1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02)
> or startxwin.exe results in an immediate crash. I could not fins a
> solution online and just cannot figure out what is happening.
>
> The output log reports many no symbol table info available notes, ie:
>
> No symbol table info available.
> #1 0x776df896 in ntdll!RtlQueryTimeZoneInformation ()
> from /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll
>
> No symbol table info available.
> #24 0x042c5317 in atioglxx!DrvGetProcAddress ()
> from /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/atioglxx.dll
>
> It ends with:
>
> Segmentation fault at address 0x13c
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>
> Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
> Segmentation fault at address 0x13c
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> winMsgWindowProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () failed: 1
>
>
> Please help.
Thanks for reporting this problem.
If this crash still occurs with the latest Cygwin X server version, please can
you follow the instructions at [1] to install debug symbols and use gdb to get
a backtrace for the X server when it crashes.
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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