Re: Fwd: XServer crashes on startup: Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting.

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 13/06/2012 01:16, Aaron Beaulieu wrote:
> On a fresh install of cygwin/X on a Windows 7 machine, attempting to
> start xwin -multiwindow (Package: version 1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02)
> or startxwin.exe results in an immediate crash.  I could not fins a
> solution online and just cannot figure out what is happening.
> 
> The output log reports many no symbol table info available notes, ie:
> 
> No symbol table info available.
> #1  0x776df896 in ntdll!RtlQueryTimeZoneInformation ()
>    from /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll
> 
> No symbol table info available.
> #24 0x042c5317 in atioglxx!DrvGetProcAddress ()
>    from /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/atioglxx.dll
> 
> It ends with:
> 
> Segmentation fault at address 0x13c
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
> 
> Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
> Segmentation fault at address 0x13c
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
> 
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> winMsgWindowProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () failed: 1
> 
> 
> Please help.

Thanks for reporting this problem.

If this crash still occurs with the latest Cygwin X server version, please can
you follow the instructions at [1] to install debug symbols and use gdb to get
a backtrace for the X server when it crashes.

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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