Re: libharfbuzz0 1.7.6-1 update causing xwin-xdg-menu.exe to crash

2018-05-15 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 05/14/2018 04:43 PM, Jon Turney wrote: On 14/05/2018 18:05, Gilles Detillieux wrote: Thanks, Jon. The local.conf blacklist rule worked like a charm! It's odd that the fontconfig packages appear not to have been built with the latest stable gcc release, but so long as it's jus

Re: libharfbuzz0 1.7.6-1 update causing xwin-xdg-menu.exe to crash

2018-05-14 Thread Gilles Detillieux
g it on our systems. On 2018-05-12 09:23, Jon Turney wrote: On 26/04/2018 16:40, Gilles Detillieux wrote: On 2018-04-26 09:03, Jon Turney wrote: On 19/04/2018 22:15, Gilles Detillieux wrote: Has anybody else run into this problem? I've done two installations of Cygwin/X on Windows 10 sy

Re: libharfbuzz0 1.7.6-1 update causing xwin-xdg-menu.exe to crash

2018-04-26 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 2018-04-26 09:03, Jon Turney wrote: On 19/04/2018 22:15, Gilles Detillieux wrote: Has anybody else run into this problem? I've done two installations of Cygwin/X on Windows 10 systems this week, and they both had problems with the XWin Server dying just a few seconds after starting

Re: XTerm(330) fails to open window in latest cygwin-x64 under Windows 10

2018-04-24 Thread Gilles Detillieux
Karl, you might want to try reverting to the previous version of libharfbuzz0 and libfreetype6. I'm running into problems with those libraries on the 32-bit version of cygwin, causing occasional crashes of xterm, and frequent crashes of xwin-xdg-menu under Windows 10. I'm just wondering if your

Re: libharfbuzz0 1.7.6-1 update causing xwin-xdg-menu.exe to crash

2018-04-24 Thread Gilles Detillieux
1.7.4-1 version. On this system, I also had to revert libfreetype6 from 2.8.1-1 to 2.6.5-1 to get xterm and xwin-xdg-menu to run reliably. Something in the font handling in these two libraries broke on a recent update. On 04/19/2018 04:15 PM, Gilles Detillieux wrote: Has anybody else run into

libharfbuzz0 1.7.6-1 update causing xwin-xdg-menu.exe to crash

2018-04-19 Thread Gilles Detillieux
Has anybody else run into this problem? I've done two installations of Cygwin/X on Windows 10 systems this week, and they both had problems with the XWin Server dying just a few seconds after starting up. I traced the problem back to xwin-xdg-menu.exe getting a Segmentation fault, which then ca

XWin Server doesn't start reliably under Windows 10 Creator's Update

2017-07-04 Thread Gilles Detillieux
updated Start menu entry. Hopefully the maintainers can find a more permanent solution to this, or at least implement this tweak in the xorg-server package. -- Gilles Detillieux Spinal Cord Research Centre Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Univ