Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-10-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, I have submitted this to XFree86 to get it in before the XFree86 4.4.0 feature deadline in about two weeks: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768 Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: Missing attachment :) NP: Lacrimosa - Schakal

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-08 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
On Sunday 07 September 2003 19:59, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: I was hunting the problem with textmode /tmp and xkb today. The fix I've submitted long ago never got into the xfree cvs, so the problem is still there. I'll check it into xoncygwin cvs after a few tests.

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-08 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:11, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Joel, [snip/snip] That is interesting... are you using an XF86Config file? Or, do you have your keyboard in Windows set to something other than the default layout (the answer is probably no if you don't know what this is)? What

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Joel Rosi-Schwartz wrote: I am really very curious as to what all of the interactions are, but I rather afraid you guys would have to write a small book to explain it all. The book is already written :) But who would like to search the archive for all the chapters? bye

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0050b588 in ProcXkbGetKbdByName (client=0x10709ff8) at xkb.c:6022 Does this indicate any problems to you? I was hunting the problem with textmode /tmp and xkb today. The fix I've submitted long ago never got into

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Alexander Gottwald wrote: I think the functions reading the keymap fail at a bogus newline and return an improper filled structure with some pointers set to NULL or random data. To verify if this is the problem, please check the output of mount if an entry for /tmp exists and if this entry (or

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Alexander Gottwald wrote: I was hunting the problem with textmode /tmp and xkb today. The fix I've submitted long ago never got into the xfree cvs, so the problem is still there. I'll check it into xoncygwin cvs after a few tests. The change for the server is submitted. I'm not sure if

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Missing attachment :) NP: Lacrimosa - Schakal -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723Index: xkbcomp.c === RCS file: /cvs/xc/programs/xkbcomp/xkbcomp.c,v retrieving revision 3.19 diff -u -u -r3.19

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-06 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold, I have attached the output from the gdb run and, even thought they have not changed much, the stack trace and log. Please not that I have not downloaded source, so all you have is the file and line number where the violation takes place. I my having the source here can help with this

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, Alexander Gottwald --- Take a look at the location of this crash: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0050b588 in ProcXkbGetKbdByName (client=0x10709ff8) at xkb.c:6022 Does this indicate any problems to you? The line reference does two pointer dereferences: *xkb-ctrls

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-05 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold, I tried both and the behaviour prevails. Just to make sure we are on the same page, I would like to reiterate that the problem only occurs when I log into pre-existing kde configurations. If I log in under a clean kde environment all is fine. It appears to be something that I

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, Okay, I have a couple more easy things to try that might have an effect: 1) Use -fullscreen to run in a full screen window... you may be seeing the results of some sort of image scaling problem. Running in full screen gives you a standard aspect ratio screen, so it might aleviate the

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Markebo
Hi! Many thoughts.. hmm not nothing like KDE loads something that wants features that only can be found on linux, not on the cygwin xfree? /Andy -- The eye of the linker rests on the libs! Please note, new email, @telia.com - @comhem.se

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-05 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Joel, The next step is to have you run a debug build of XWin.exe. We should be able to locate the offending line of code, so long as it is a problem internal to XWin.exe and not in an external library (it almost never is). I am creating a debug build of XWin.exe for

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, I just posted a Test97 DEBUG release to: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test97-DEBUG.exe.bz2 You seem pretty knowledgeable, so I assume that you know what to do in order to locate the place that XWin.exe is bombing. One caveat --- if you run this under gdb, be aware that

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Andrew Markebo wrote: Maybe throw an eye at the log in /tmp also? Hmm...thought I did. Is it not XWin.log? [...] | | Please attach your startxwin.sh file for examination. Okay I have but note that I do not use it. I start up the server with the attached startX command. - joel startX

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
I do not understand why, but both times that I attached my startX file it seems be unreadable. Here are the contents: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 cd c:/tmp nohup /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -query athena -from `hostname` 2/dev/null # I have also tried the following #

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Andrew Markebo wrote: What happens if you pick away the export DISPLAY? No effect, it behaves the same either way. The thing is that it all works fine if the kde environment of the user logging in is virgin. Something in the KDE environment that has been configured at some point in the

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, We had some problems a long while back with 24 and 32 bit color and KDE. Try dropping your Windows color depth to 16 bits per pixel and report your results. Thanks for testing, Harold Joel Rosi-Schwartz wrote: Andrew Markebo wrote: What happens if you pick away the export DISPLAY?

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold, Gave it a shot but it still core dumps. Thanks for the idea though. - joel Harold L Hunt II wrote: Joel, We had some problems a long while back with 24 and 32 bit color and KDE. Try dropping your Windows color depth to 16 bits per pixel and report your results. Thanks for testing,

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, Okay, on the off chance that something strange is happening, please try changing the -from `hostname` to -from %my_ip_address%. Also, try leaving off the -from altogether if you only have one network interface in your computer. Harold Joel Rosi-Schwartz wrote: Harold, Gave it a shot

Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-03 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Hi, I have spent the last couple of days trying to sort this out and I am stumped. I have a new machine that I am trying to get XFree up and running on. I already have XFree working just fine on 3 other workstations; these have been running fine for the past year and I have kept them updated

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-03 Thread Harold L Hunt II
machines are running win2k sp3, cygwin 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) and xfree 4.3.9. Joel, There is no such thing as Cygwin/XFree86 4.3.9. There are Server Test Series releases: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/changelog.html There are also setup.exe installed release of the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-*