XWin crashes with "Fatal server error" when starting SYBYL 8.1 over SSH
marco atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 13:51:00 GMT 2012
On 6/11/2012 3:23 PM, Patrice Peterson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In our lab, we use Cygwin to run SYBYL 8.1. SYBYL does not run locally,
> we instead forward the X server of the remote machine where it is
> installed over SSH. This used to work fine until a few weeks ago, though
> I am embarassed to say I can't pinpoint the exact time when it stopped
> working.
>
> SYBYL usually opens two windows, a main window and a (graphical)
> terminal. When the first (main) window pops up, XWin crashes with the
> following error:
>
> Fatal server error
> ...
> Package version: 1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02
> ...
> X was called with: X :0 -multiwindow
>
> An full Cygwin update didn't rectify the problem, and IIRC it's not
> possible to downgrade packages in Cygwin.
it is possible.
On "Select Packages" window look for "xorg-server" row,
click on "Keep" and you can circle around options:
keep / version 1.12.1-1
version 1.12.0-5
source
reinstall
uninstall
please check if version 1.12.0-5 is functional in your case
Regards
Marco
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