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Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 06:00:52 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?
--- Greg Lane <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> I have cc'ed this to Nicholas since I'd like to know what version
> of X he was running...
>
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:45:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks. I'd never used the 'xset fp=' command before.
> >
> > Unfortunately, now that I've tried running things, the best I can do
> is
> > confirm that it core dumps for me, too. It probably wouldn't be
> > terrifically hard to track down with a debugging version of xfs,
> running
> > under gdb but that would require building xfs, which I'm not set up to
> > do.
> >
> > Maybe someone who has the sources on their machine could give this
> > a try...
> >
> > cgf
>
> I had hoped it wouldn't come to that!!
>
> Can I just ask what Windows system you tried it on and what version of
> cygwin X you have? Earlier Nicholas said he had it running on Windows
> Me,
> but did not say what version of X he was running.
>
> I will try and build a debugging version of xfs myself but that will
> have to wait until the end of the week as i have to go to a conference
> tomorrow. Hopefully some kind soul will have already done this
> by then, else I'll have to learn how to build X in cygwin!
>
> Is there a simple way to backdate X with binary packages to see if this
> is an "introduced" problem?
>
Ok,
It's stack dumping on me too, now. I had forgot that my startx script was
unsetting the fontpath and setting its own (I was getting TrueType fonts
going earlier last month). Now, when it looks for tcp/localhost:7100, it
just crashes. I'm running it as "xfs -daemon", and it appears to be
running in the background fine. But as soon as I startx, boom!
Cheers,
Nicholas
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