You review (and possible upload) the output from this directory: /var/log/xwin You could at least then confirm the xwin application is running, and starting (even if it then crashes)...
I had issues after recent upgrades (probably over a year ago) because of what I had in my local .startxwin... I only discovered it by looking at these xwin logs. Gavin -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY Sent: 04 June 2015 12:19 To: jaakov jaakov; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: run.exe fails to start XWin in Windows 8.1 On 01/06/2015 22:38, jaakov jaakov wrote: > Finally, I got to the machine that won't start XWin. It is different > now: XWin won't start as before, but now no run.exe.stackdump file is > produced. The start command is > > C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; > /usr/bin/startxwin" Thanks for following up on this. But I'm sorry, there's nothing to go on there. Is it possible for you to upload the output of stracing that run command somewhere? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple