X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4BCE1C27.4080108@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:27:03 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: X Server crashes occasionally References: <4BCDA563 DOT 3070601 AT fastmail DOT fm> In-reply-to: <4BCDA563.3070601@fastmail.fm> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 4/20/2010 9:00 AM, Matt wrote: > Hi, the info here will be vague since I haven't done too much debugging > yet, but I was wondering if anyone has been experiencing X server > crashes since around the time of the jump to Cygwin 1.7? It happens to > me maybe once a week under daily usage. /var/log/XWin.0.log says only: > > 2010-04-20 08:22:22 Segmentation fault at address 0x17 > 2010-04-20 08:22:22 > Fatal server error: > 2010-04-20 08:22:22 Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting > 2010-04-20 08:22:22 > > Interestingly, when the crash alert box pops up, until I dismiss it, the > server still appears to be functional, as I can still close all the > individual client apps cleanly. > > This is on Windows XP SP3 with an NVidia 8800 GTS. Here is the XWin.0.log > in case it may reveal anything: http://pastebin.com/Pc1sL3es > > Is adding "-logverbose 3" to the startxwin.exe command line the best way > to get more info? Can I get a core dump somehow? Cygwin X problems are more appropriately sent to the cygwin-xfree list. See for more info. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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