Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text

[Brian Kelly <reedfish at ix dot netcom dot com>]

Also, notepad can't paste while the X system is in the "hung" condition. Once it's killed, paste in notepad returns.

I can send you the "Dr. Watson" error reports generated by Windows when it kills the "Non-Responsive" app - if you would find them at all helpful.

Brian



-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Kelly 
>Sent: Sep 15, 2010 11:12 AM

>Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text
>
>See attached log run with XWin -logverbose 3
>
>Only the X System hangs - not the whole PC. Other apps continue to work fine. However, **while** the X system is hung, mintty loses it's cut-and-paste capabilities. Once Windows or I with /bin/kill, stop the X system, mintty can once again cut-and-paste (without any need to restart the app).
>
>I did have a system failure caused by a VPN memory clash that caused a "blue screen of death" and instant system shutdown. It seems my X-Windows problem began after that episode. I don't know if that is germane, but it's all I can think of as a potential causal contributor.
>
>Thanks Jon
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jon TURNEY 
>>Sent: Sep 15, 2010 7:13 AM
>
>>Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text
>>
>>On 14/09/2010 20:52, Brian Kelly wrote:
>>> Thanks Jon for the quick reply. I attached a new log file generated with
>>> an  attempt to highlight - followed by the "hang".
>>
>>Can you please attach an X server log generated with the additional server 
>>option '-logverbose 3'
>>
>>Can you be more detailed about what you mean by a 'hang'? Does just the X 
>>server application become unresponsive? or your whole system?
>>
>>> Again, this worked PERFECTLY just yesterday.
>>
>>I understood the first time.
>>
>>I would suggest that something has changed on your system to cause this change 
>>in behaviour, but you are best placed to find out what that is.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jon TURNEY
>>>> Sent: Sep 14, 2010 1:47 PM
>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text
>>>>
>>>> On 14/09/2010 18:51, Brian Kelly wrote:
>>>>> I've been using Cygwin X trouble-free for years, and am running the latest
>>>>> distribution of X and the Cygwin1.dll for at least two weeks (since the
>>>>> Cygwin 1.7.7.1 release). It's been fine until this morning when it started
>>>>> locking on me whenever I used the mouse to highlight text. I have NO IDEA
>>>>> what changed on my system to now cause this behavior. **ANY** help you can
>>>>> give to assist me would be most appreciated since I use it for all my
>>>>> development efforts.
>>>>
>>>> This is very likely to be some sort of problem with the clipboard integration
>>>> code.
>>>>
>>>> You might find that using the '-noclipboard' option works around the problem
>>>> (at the cost of not being able to cut/paste between Windows and X apps).
>>>>
>>>> An xserver log with '-logverbose 3' might shed a bit more light on what's
>>>> going on.
>>
>>-- 
>>Jon TURNEY
>>Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer


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