Cygwin 1.7.22 calls dumper when starting X

[Jon TURNEY]

On 30/07/2013 18:33, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I have the latest version of Cygwin (using setup-x86). I see the same
> problem on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 systems.
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 LTDEN-REISERT 1.7.22(0.268/5/3) 2013-07-22 17:06 i686 Cygwin
> 
> Here is how I am starting X:
> 
> C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
> 
> When I run this command, a dumper console window pops up with this error:
> 
> "failed to open file: No such file or directory"

You're getting the dumper because you have
'error_start=C:\Cygwin\bin\dumper.exe' in your CYGWIN environment variable and
something is crashing...

> I had not seen this before updating setup to setup-x86 and installing
> the latest code.  The console window goes away by itself, and XWin
> seems to have started normally, I.e. I get the 'X' in my system tray
> and can launch programs from it.

I can't reproduce this.

Can you try downgrading to run-1.2.0 and see if the problem still exists, that
seems to have caused some people problems [1]

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00532.html

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Jon TURNEY
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