Cygwin X server crashes when a remote Xemacs is run

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Nov 12 05:25:00 GMT 2003


Anybody care to run a debug build of XWin.exe in gdb to find the crash 
location?

Harold

Brian R.Landy wrote:

> 
> Hi, I see what appears to be the same crash (address 0x61093b2c), using 
> Vim 6.2 with the GTK1 GUI.  One remote system is running AIX, the other 
> Solaris.  The cygwin system runs NT 4 SP6.
> 
> However, I only crash if I run XWin.exe -multiwindow.  Switching to 
> windowed, fullscreen, or even rootless causes the crash to go away.
> 
> Nothing is written to Xwin.log after the normal startup messages.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
>> Here what I'm trying to do:
>> I establish a rsh connection with a UNIX/Linux machine and open an xterm.
>> The I run Xemacs on this remote machine and XWin.exe crashes.
>> I tried it connecting with both  a Linux machine and a Alpha machine. 
>> Here
>> the Xemacs versions installed on those machines:
>> Linux - Xemacs 21.1 (patch 14) i386-redhat-linux
>> Alpha - Xemacs 20.4 alpha-dec-osf3.2
>>
>> Here the Windows error message:
>> Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Address: 0x61093b2c
>>
>> I'm running Cygwin 1.5.5-1 on Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. XWin.exe 
>> version
>> is 4.3.0-20
>>
>> Giampaolo Orrigo
> 
> 



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