X Server crashes occasionally

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/20/2010 9:00 AM, Matt wrote:
> Hi, the info here will be vague since I haven't done too much debugging
> yet, but I was wondering if anyone has been experiencing X server
> crashes since around the time of the jump to Cygwin 1.7? It happens to
> me maybe once a week under daily usage.  /var/log/XWin.0.log says only:
>
>   2010-04-20 08:22:22 Segmentation fault at address 0x17
>   2010-04-20 08:22:22
>   Fatal server error:
>   2010-04-20 08:22:22 Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>   2010-04-20 08:22:22
>
> Interestingly, when the crash alert box pops up, until I dismiss it, the
> server still appears to be functional, as I can still close all the
> individual client apps cleanly.
>
> This is on Windows XP SP3 with an NVidia 8800 GTS. Here is the XWin.0.log
> in case it may reveal anything:  http://pastebin.com/Pc1sL3es
>
> Is adding "-logverbose 3" to the startxwin.exe command line the best way
> to get more info?  Can I get a core dump somehow?

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