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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.12
- From: Ken <kstmp001 at comcast dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:06:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.12
Greetings,
Firstly, thank you everyone for your tireless work on
the Cygwin project! I have no doubt that many of you
burn the midnight oil in your quest to improve Cygwin.
I appreciate the fruits of your labor! So, thank you.
Now, in testing the latest snapshots I may have
stumbled upon something that has not yet been noticed.
If by chance it has, then I apologize for not probing
deep enough.
It appears that some sort of anomaly was introduced in
snapshot 20120329 which persists in 20120330 and
20120401 as well.
Snapshot 20120321 is the last snapshot that seems to
work correctly in my testing.
I applied the snapshots to a 1.7.11 installation and
also performed a rebaseall operation (with success)
after applying each snapshot and prior to testing.
The issue affects the ability to launch *some*
applications from the XWin Server's menu (X icon in
systray). For example:
1) Attempts to launch xterm fails to launch and results
in a stack dump. (It is noteworthy to mention that the
initial xterm launched via the "XWin Server" Windows
shortcut does indeed launch).
2) Attempts to launch gvim just fails to launch (I
cannot locate any dump file).
3) Attempt to "View logfile" results in an xterm stack
dump.
4) Attempts to launch an rxvt terminal, as well as an
Xemacs session, succeeds.
However, all of these applications do launch
successfully from the command line for all snapshots
(within the initial xterm or subsequent xterm's
launched from it).
My test platform is a first generation Intel core-i7
running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, SP1.
Attached are files detailing the cygcheck results (all
OK) and the stack dumps for xterm. Also, I have
attached a slightly modified /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
which I used as a test case.
Hopefully this is enough info to enable investigation
of these events.
Kind regards,
Ken
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