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RE: Novice Question
Jon,
Your patch seems to overcome the issue( whatever it is... ) .. xterm window
now fires up
Is there anything further I can help you with ??
Thanks for your time
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk]
Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 8:39 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: andy.stainer@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Novice Question
Andy wrote:
> /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.6.0-10/src/xorg-server-
> 1.6.0/
> os/access.c
> (gdb) p *ifr
> $1 = {ifa_next = 0x1447798, ifa_name = 0x14474c4
> "{B8B51884-C69A-4592-B65D-89ABB3DCF18D}", ifa_flags = 69635,
> ifa_addr = 0x14474f0, ifa_netmask = 0x14475f0, ifa_dstaddr = 0x0,
> ifa_data = 0x0}
:-)
It seems that the (new for Cygwin 1.7) getifaddr() function can return
interfaces with IFF_BROADCAST & IFF_UP set, but no broadcast address, which
the X server assumes never happens
I'd guess this means you have a network interface with a slightly unusual
state (connected but no address configured perhaps?)
I've uploaded a new build of the X server with a small patch (attached)
applied which should avoid this crash, perhaps you could try
ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20090629103603.exe.bz2 and see if that
works any better...
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