Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:32:33 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin/xfree86 logged into KDE3 causes strange cygwin error Message-ID: <20020406063233.GF12535@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:14:44PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote: >This is the first time I have every seen anything like this in >Cygwin/XFree86. > >I just installed KDE3 on my Linux box and when I login via XDMCP and run >Konsole I get this error message in Windows: > >--------------------------- >Error >--------------------------- >Failed assertion > fds_on_hold != NULL >at line 643 of file >/cygnus/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc >--------------------------- >OK >--------------------------- > > >So far this has happened only when I launch Konsole. Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't >crash when this happens, but things seem to get sketchy after it happens a >few times. > >Any ideas? It's coming from vfork. Something's stomping on memory that is supposed to hold a copy of the fd table. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/