X server segfault problem

[chm]

On 1/3/2011 2:41 PM, chm wrote:
> On 1/3/2011 2:32 PM, chm wrote:
>> On 1/3/2011 12:54 PM, chm wrote:
>>> On 1/3/2011 11:55 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> On 02/01/2011 01:11, chm wrote:
>>>>> I'm having a problem with cygwin 1.7.7
>>>>> and X version 1.9.3.0 where an OpenGL
>>>>> application from perl using the Mesa3D
>>>>> binding dies in the test with a segfault:
>>>>
>>>> X related questions belong on the cygwin-xfree list.
>>>>
>>>>> A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X
>>>>> will now exit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
>>>>> Server aborting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please open /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log
>>>>> for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I close the popup alert, X exits.
>>>>> The XWin.0.log only has Segmentation
>>>>> fault at address 0xe.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been unable to determine if the
>>>>> problem is in the perl OpenGL module
>>>>> code or in the updated X+GLX+Mesa3D.
>>>>
>>>> Even incorrectly written X clients shouldn't make the X server crash, so if
>>>> the X server crashes, it is an X server problem.
>>>>
>>>>> To reproduce, just download the perl
>>>>> OpenGL module source:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHM/OpenGL-0.64.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> and extract the directory. cd to the
>>>>> OpenGL-0.64 directory and run the following
>>>>> command:
>>>>>
>>>>> ( set -x ; perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test ) 2>&1 | tee
>>>>> ../pogl-x-crash-log.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> which should configure, build and run the test
>>>>> for this module. You will need to have gcc,
>>>>> perl and opengl installed in your cygwin.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help appreciated since I can no longer
>>>>> develop on cygwin since the X server started
>>>>> crashing...not even to fix the problem (if
>>>>> it is the OpenGL module code).
>>>>
>>>> This kind of implies it used to work, but doesn't tell me which version it
>>>> worked with.
>>>
>>> It worked with cygwin 1.5.25 and earlier. The X that
>>> came with the move to the 1.7.x series was the first
>>> that had the crash.
>>>
>>>> Anyhow, I've just fixed an OpenGL related problem which looks similar to this,
>>>> perhaps you could try the snapshot in [1] and see if that helps.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-01/msg00001.html
>>>
>>> I assume this is a binary to replace the existing
>>> XWin.exe....just ran the new XWin.20110102-git-29db9091c6ae4995.exe
>>> and the server did not crash when I ran the test. There was
>>> a problem with a missing font so the text did not display but
>>> I don't know if that was because I did not set something up
>>> correctly in "just running" the XWin program by hand.
>>>
>>> --Chris
>>
>> I've just added myself to the cygwin-xfree list so this
>> reply should go through now.
>>
>> Took a bit more of a look at the font problem and I don't
>> see anything obvious. The last time I had this problem
>> it was something related to the X font setup. The crashing
>> problem is definitely fixed with this XWin.20110102...
>
> I tried passing the new XWin.20110102 as the server option
> to startxwin but am still getting the font errors. No
> crashes, though.

Final update: I tried on another cygwin install and it worked
out of the box with the new XWin.2011 program.  Then I went
back and tried the original system and it now works as
expected.  Maybe there was a lingering font connection to
the previous XWin.exe.

Thanks for the fix,
Chris

>> Cheers,
>> Chris

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