X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=DFStFZoRZGGnowzXBoWahf1SFPky1 0CMy1MoMxA6lta/AyC98OEt1ybpDX8V+fCBNaToPrG849oGn4H5/8V3Y5QifXpXi DFVvJE7/oNBQuXWltZbB5lRJJARVXOvOY5tO2eXVdDAxypI+eFl7Hv2iRzD2eBBd wjAGS/ImAB2yvU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=default; bh=C617FDpzBB64TboFS3E1yRzZo6E=; b=f9a t3NxltR2BDM7r3YW+1oz3fKzd60nX0Rd3WzR11omXrHMB+Z9qHwtGA2lMpSBxklH haZ1oKmSBfXgN9qKC5ALkKOsE9l6Umw/E575/xXUvsUtfpwS4rjBEDIf20DvD+m4 LctfK7DPuNzb7/CCV/VkjAy0b+YJBmf4pzVem6gE= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,CYGWIN_OWNER_BODY,MIME_BASE64_BLANKS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp1.cc.ic.ac.uk From: "Bravery, Gavin S" To: Jon TURNEY , jaakov jaakov , "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: RE: run.exe fails to start XWin in Windows 8.1 Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 11:57:19 +0000 Message-ID: References: <555A16B6 DOT 1060506 AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> <1433194723 DOT 669375 DOT 16882 DOT 18430 AT mail DOT rambler DOT ru> <55703436 DOT 7050002 AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <55703436.7050002@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IC-MsgID: 1Z0Tlz-0003Eq-9V X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id t54BveML020278 You review (and possible upload) the output from this directory: /var/log/xwin You could at least then confirm the xwin application is running, and starting (even if it then crashes)... I had issues after recent upgrades (probably over a year ago) because of what I had in my local .startxwin... I only discovered it by looking at these xwin logs. Gavin -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY Sent: 04 June 2015 12:19 To: jaakov jaakov; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: run.exe fails to start XWin in Windows 8.1 On 01/06/2015 22:38, jaakov jaakov wrote: > Finally, I got to the machine that won't start XWin. It is different > now: XWin won't start as before, but now no run.exe.stackdump file is > produced. The start command is > > C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; > /usr/bin/startxwin" Thanks for following up on this. But I'm sorry, there's nothing to go on there. Is it possible for you to upload the output of stracing that run command somewhere? -- 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