Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 16:41, Chris LeBlanc wrote: Now the question is, if the same problem occurs, why? Please paste the contents of /etc/fstab and, if it exists, /etc/fstab.d/$USER into your reply. Thanks for the information, I think we're getting closer to finding the problem. /etc/fstab

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/08/12 05:23, Chris LeBlanc wrote: I compiled xorg with debugging from the source packages, and that shows the same behaviour. I can step through the debugger, but the output is the same as what Jon found in the previous email, failing on the call to strcpy(). I've logged the gdb output

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 13 13:17, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 13/08/12 05:23, Chris LeBlanc wrote: I compiled xorg with debugging from the source packages, and that shows the same behaviour. I can step through the debugger, but the output is the same as what Jon found in the previous email, failing on the call to

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-12 Thread Chris LeBlanc
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Chris LeBlanc crlebl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, As Jon's reference [1] explains, merely disabling the BLODA might not be sufficient. You may have to completely uninstall it to be rid of its effects. *Especially* if it has processes that re-launch

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 08/08/2012 05:51, Chris LeBlanc wrote: I'm trying to help a coworker get Cygwin running on her Windows 7 (64b) machine, but we're seeing a segmentation fault with XWin.exe. Previous versions of X11 worked fine on this machine, but recently it has been unable to fork processes. It's been

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-08 Thread Chris LeBlanc
Hi Jon, Thanks for the excellent response. Given you were getting fork problems before this upgrade, this might well be a problem with some other software interfering with cygwin's operation. So you should take a look at [1], and probably try running XWin with CYGWIN including detect_bloda

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Geisert
The only software I found on her computer that is also on that list was the McAfee virus scanner. We disabled this and still saw the problem (though I noticed the process was still running, and re-launched itself if you killed it!). As Jon's reference [1] explains, merely disabling the BLODA

Re: XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-08 Thread Chris LeBlanc
Hi Mark, As Jon's reference [1] explains, merely disabling the BLODA might not be sufficient. You may have to completely uninstall it to be rid of its effects. *Especially* if it has processes that re-launch themselves on kill; I mean, how can you know whether you've ruled this particular

XWin.exe segmentation fault on Windows 7

2012-08-07 Thread Chris LeBlanc
Hi, I'm trying to help a coworker get Cygwin running on her Windows 7 (64b) machine, but we're seeing a segmentation fault with XWin.exe. Previous versions of X11 worked fine on this machine, but recently it has been unable to fork processes. It's been giving the error fork: child -1 - forked