XTerm(330) fails to open window in latest cygwin-x64 under Windows 10

[Gilles Detillieux]

Karl, you might want to try reverting to the previous version of 
libharfbuzz0 and libfreetype6. I'm running into problems with those 
libraries on the 32-bit version of cygwin, causing occasional crashes of 
xterm, and frequent crashes of xwin-xdg-menu under Windows 10. I'm just 
wondering if your issue is related to those same problems in these 
libraries, only it's manifesting differently under the 64-bit version of 
cygwin. It may be a long-shot, but if our experiences corroborate each 
other it might help nail down these font-related issues.

In any case, check to see if there's an xterm.exe.stackdump file in the 
directory from which you ran xterm. If there is, try running something 
like "strace xterm.exe > xterm.log" and see what xterm is doing before 
it crashes.

Hope this helps.

Gilles

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:48:08, Karl Peterson wrote:

> The only output is:
> karpeterson@DFWLW1041HJTC2 /var/log/xwin
> $ xterm
> xterm: cannot load font
> "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
> 
> XWin.0.log contains:
> [  1471.843] IsOverrideRedirect: Failed to get window attributes
> 
> This message only gets printed when I use my favorite xterm options: "-fg
> white -bg black -sl 5000" No other output is printed, and xterm exits with
> RC=0. Other locally run X programs work fine, such as xeyes and emacs.
> 
> 
> What can I do to debug this?

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)


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