On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:43:11PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/20/2009 12:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > >I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other > >internal changes), and published a test release. Please try run-0.3.1-1 > >and let me know if it fixes your problems with checkX. > > I still have the instability that I reported as problem #2 in > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-10/msg00143.html > > but I wasn't expecting you to fix that. As I said later in the > thread, I suspect BLODA. > > But the new behavior of the timeout option (my problem #1) works > fine, with one caveat: If I start the X server with startxwin.bat, > it immediately exits and claims that a server is already running. > This was also reported earlier today by Jim Reisert: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00158.html > > Could it be that checkX is tricking XWin into thinking that a > different X server is running? (I have no idea how XWin decides > whether an X server is running, so this may or may not be > plausible.) Strangely, the problem doesn't occur if I use > startxwin.sh instead of startxwin.bat. >
has it something to do with the -wait option to checkX that is present in the startxwin.bat? I had to remove that option, since it broke the start of the X server. And I now note it is not in the bash version. GJ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/