multiwindow segmentation fault

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Tue Jan 14 20:52:00 GMT 2003


Cary,

Thanks for the heads-up.  I am always missing Kensuke's patches for some 
reason.  I will have to ask him to send them in a seperate email with a 
new subject line, prefixed with [PATCH] (Kensuke, did you see that?  If 
not, I will email you directly)

Harold

Cary Jamison wrote:
> "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in message
> news:<3E244F8F.3030202@msu.edu>...
> 
>>Since I don't have any ideas on how to progress, please do a search 
>>for
>>cygwin1.dll files on your computer.  Report if you find more than one
> 
> copy.
> 
>>Harold
>>
>>J S wrote:
>>
>>>Sure. If you just run the command 'xwin -multiwindow' from a bash 
>>>prompt
>>>then the only thing you're running is xwin anyway isn't it?
>>>
>>>$ ps -ef
>>>    UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>>>U752359     836       1 con  16:46:30 /usr/bin/bash
>>>U752359     868     836 con  16:46:41 /usr/bin/ps
>>>
>>>U752359@A217447D ~
>>>$ xwin -multiwindow
>>>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>
>>>U752359@A217447D ~
>>>$
>>>
>>>
>>>>You are taking care not to run any other window manager, right?
>>>>(don't run twm, mwm, openbox, etc. since -multiwindow invokes its
> 
> own 
> 
>>>>window manager)
>>>>
>>>>Harold
>>>>
>>>>J S wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>I downloaded all the XFree packages off cygwin today on to my W2K
>>>>>box, and I'm still getting the segmentation fault when I run 'xwin
> 
> 
>>>>>-multiwindow'. All the other xwin features work fine. I am using 
>>>>>version -18 also. Here's some information from xwinrl.log and
> 
> cygcheck:
> 
> 
> Try Kensuke's latest patch (dated last night).  (Haven't tried it
> myself, just noticed that you guys hadn't seemed to have noticed it
> yet.)
> 
> Cary



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