Re: Server crashes when snes9x.exe is started

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier <fredlwm at fastmail dot fm>]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > As soon as I start snes9x.exe 1.41-1 (a Super Nintendo emulator
> > - http://www.snes9x.com/) the server crashes with the
> > following:
> >
> > xinit:  connection to X server lost.
> > XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> >       after 10719 requests (10623 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> > XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> >       after 81713 requests (81698 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> >
> > [1]+  Done                    startx
> >
> > Is this a bug ? Are any applications supposed to make XWin.exe
> > crash ?
>
> Not a known bug.  No application should cause XWin.exe to crash.
>
> I tried this on my system (Win XP Pro SP1a + all latest patches) and
> could not reproduce the problem.

I also have Professional (I ommited it) and all latest patches.

> I tried it with both -multiwindow (uses GDI engine)

It didn't crash.

> and with -nodecoration -lesspointer (uses DirectDraw engine).

It crashed.

> Neither crashed when snes9x.exe was launched.

Before I was using -rootless -emulate3buttons -clipboard

> Try the above two tests as I did.

> Have you already loaded a ROM in snes9x.exe?  Does it cache
> this and try to load it on the next startup?  If so, perhaps
> that is causing the problem.  I do not have any ROMs, so I
> cannot test that further.

You don't need any. With -nodecoration -lesspointer or
-rootless -emulate3buttons -clipboard it crashes as soon as I
close it. I thought it crashed when I started it. I assume I
was wrong.

> Try starting with startxwin.bat instead of startx.  You could
> actually be seeing a crash in one of the sub-apps launched by
> xinit, which might be causing the server to be killed.

In fact, the error messages are different if I use IceWM or
twm. With twm it still crashes, but only displays:

xinit:  connection to X server lost.
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

> Please send in /tmp/XWin.log from one of these crashes as
> well.

Attached.

Does it mean something with resolution or color depth ? Under
Display Properties I see 1024x768x32bpp.

I ran the emulator with default settings.

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