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Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

by Eric Ho-4 :: Rate this Message:

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I ssh to Ubuntu 9.10 box and brought up Firefox. After a few screens I've got XWin crashes. I've got the following:
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.7.1.0 (10701000)
Build Date: 2009-10-25

Contact: cygwin-xfree@...

XWin was started with the following command line:

Xwin -clipboard

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
2009-10-31 17:30:37 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
2009-10-31 17:30:37 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/xxxxxx:0
2009-10-31 17:30:37 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (II) xorg.conf is not supported
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
2009-10-31 17:30:37 LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
2009-10-31 17:30:37 Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0).
2009-10-31 17:30:37 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
2009-10-31 17:30:37 XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
2009-10-31 17:30:37 [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list!
2009-10-31 17:30:37 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 336
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (--) 5 mouse buttons found
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
2009-10-31 17:30:37 (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
2009-10-31 17:30:37 Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winInitClipboard ()
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winClipboardProc - Hello
2009-10-31 17:31:14 DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=:0.0
2009-10-31 17:31:14 winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
2009-10-31 17:32:18 Segmentation fault at address 0x0
2009-10-31 17:32:18
Fatal server error:
2009-10-31 17:32:18 Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
2009-10-31 17:32:18

Any idea what could be the problem. Thanks.

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Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

by Jon TURNEY :: Rate this Message:

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On 01/11/2009 00:23, ERIC HO wrote:
> I ssh to Ubuntu 9.10 box and brought up Firefox. After a few screens I've got XWin crashes. I've got the following:
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.7.1.0 (10701000)
> Build Date: 2009-10-25
[...]
> 2009-10-31 17:32:18 Segmentation fault at address 0x0
> 2009-10-31 17:32:18 Fatal server error:
> 2009-10-31 17:32:18 Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
>
> Any idea what could be the problem. Thanks.

I'm not able to reproduce this problem, so I'd like your help to get a
backtrace, if you are willing:

1. Download [1] (this is a build of the 1.7.1-1 XWin server but with debugging
symbols unstripped)
2. bunzip2 XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped.exe.bz2 to uncompress it
(you may need to install the bzip2 package)
3. gdb --args ./XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped.exe -clipboard
(you may need to install the gdb package)
4. Wait for the '(gdb)' prompt, type 'run'
5. In another terminal window, do your ssh, start firefox and do whatever you
do to make the crash happen. You should get another '(gdb)' prompt, type 'bt full'
6. post the output

[1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped.exe.bz2

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Parent Message unknown Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

by Jon TURNEY :: Rate this Message:

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Thanks for the backtrace.

It's interesting, but I'm afraid it doesn't immediately let me pinpoint the
problem.

A couple of questions I should have asked before:
- is this crash caused by to doing some specific action or looking at specific
pages in firefox?
- using ssh with your X server in a window but no WM is rather strange. Are
you starting any other programs or a window manager along with firefox? Do you
see the problem if you start the X server with -multiwindow? Do you see the
problem if you use -query to do an XDMCP login?

In future, please send your replies to the cygwin-xfree list, rather than to
me personally.

On 01/11/2009 20:32, ERIC HO wrote:

> Hi Jon, the message are as follows:
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/eho/XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped.exe -clipboard
> [New thread 1120.0x720]
> [New thread 1120.0x1374]
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 1.7.1.0 (10701000)
> Build Date: 2009-11-01
>
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@...
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> /home/eho/XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped -clipboard
>
> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/IBM-6963EB6C3F2:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
> warning: Lowest section in /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/wmi.dll is .text                                        at 76d31000
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> (II) xorg.conf is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more informa                                       tion
> winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
> LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
> winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits pe                                       r pixel
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0).
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack                                        of shared memory support in the kernel
> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
> [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing f                                       rom list!
> [New thread 1120.0x2098]
> winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 336
> (--) 5 mouse buttons found
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
> Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options =                                        "none"
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> winInitClipboard ()
> [New thread 1120.0xee0]
> winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
> winClipboardProc - Hello
> DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
> winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=:0.0
> [New thread 1120.0x2338]
> [New thread 1120.0x2594]
> winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x005168a1 in damageRegionAppend (pDrawable=0x103bd878,
>      pRegion=0x22cbcc, clip=1, subWindowMode=0)
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:290
> 290     /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c: No such file or directory.
>          in /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  0x005168a1 in damageRegionAppend (pDrawable=0x103bd878,
>      pRegion=0x22cbcc, clip=1, subWindowMode=0)
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:290
>          pScreen = (ScreenPtr) 0x1008c8e8
>          pScrPriv = (DamageScrPrivPtr) 0x1008da38
>          pDamage = (DamagePtr) 0x104ec960
>          pNext = (DamagePtr) 0x100944d0
>          clippedRec = {extents = {x1 = 0, y1 = 0, x2 = 0, y2 = 0},
>    data = 0x61c8a8}
>          pDamageRegion = (RegionPtr) 0x1008a990
>          pixClip = {extents = {x1 = -13416, y1 = 34, x2 = -5217,
>      y2 = 83}, data = 0x103bd890}
>          draw_x = 6386704
>          draw_y = 2280360
>          screen_x = 0
>          screen_y = 0
> #1  0x00516d29 in damageDamageBox (pDrawable=0x103bd878,
>      pBox=0x22cc10, subWindowMode=0)
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:425
>          region = {extents = {x1 = 5, y1 = 152, x2 = 22, y2 = 169},
>    data = 0x0}
> #2  0x005184db in damageCopyArea (pSrc=0x104f8528, pDst=0x103bd878,
>      pGC=0x104ed1b0, srcx=0, srcy=0, width=17, height=17, dstx=5,
>      dsty=104)
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:946
>          box = {x1 = 5, y1 = 152, x2 = 22, y2 = 169}
>          ret = (RegionPtr) 0x103bd878
>          pGCPriv = (DamageGCPrivPtr) 0x10368278
>          oldFuncs = (GCFuncs *) 0x5eaba0
> #3  0x00542692 in ProcCopyArea (client=0x10325578)
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/dix/dispatch.c:1731
>          pDst = (DrawablePtr) 0x103bd878
>          pSrc = (DrawablePtr) 0x104f8528
>          pGC = (GC *) 0x104ed1b0
>          stuff = (xCopyAreaReq *) 0x104eeba0
>          pRgn = (RegionPtr) 0x8
>          rc = 0
> #4  0x0053f4ca in Dispatch ()
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/dix/dispatch.c:445
> ---Type<return>  to continue, or q<return>  to quit---
>          clientReady = (int *) 0x10129db8
>          result = 0
>          client = (ClientPtr) 0x10325578
>          nready = 0
>          icheck = (HWEventQueuePtr *) 0x6225c4
>          start_tick = 0
> #5  0x005395a0 in main (argc=2, argv=0x1005a3f0, envp=0x100480e0)
>      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/dix/main.c:285
>          i = 1
>          alwaysCheckForInput = {0, 1}
> (gdb)

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Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

by Eric Ho-4 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Jon, the crash is not caused by doing some specific action or looking at specific
pages in firefox.  Sometimes I sit on the Firefox screen and the cash happens.
I ssh to the the remote Ubuntu Box and start up a gnome-session  there back to my display. I then bring up the firefox on the Ubuntu box. After a few clicks, the cygwin Xserver died.
I tried starting the X server with -multiwindow, but could not even get a complete GNOME screen back.
I've tried  -query but did not get a screen back. It could be only ssh is allowed into the Ubuntu box.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@...>
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 12:58 pm
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions
To: ERIC HO <ericmho@...>
Cc: cygwin-xfree@...

>
> Thanks for the backtrace.
>
> It's interesting, but I'm afraid it doesn't immediately let me
> pinpoint the
> problem.
>
> A couple of questions I should have asked before:
> - is this crash caused by to doing some specific action or
> looking at specific
> pages in firefox?
> - using ssh with your X server in a window but no WM is rather
> strange. Are
> you starting any other programs or a window manager along with
> firefox? Do you
> see the problem if you start the X server with -multiwindow? Do
> you see the
> problem if you use -query to do an XDMCP login?
>
> In future, please send your replies to the cygwin-xfree list,
> rather than to
> me personally.
>
> On 01/11/2009 20:32, ERIC HO wrote:
> > Hi Jon, the message are as follows:
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /home/eho/XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped.exe -clipboard
> > [New thread 1120.0x720]
> > [New thread 1120.0x1374]
> > Welcome to the XWin X Server
> > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> > Release: 1.7.1.0 (10701000)
> > Build Date: 2009-11-01
> >
> > Contact: cygwin-xfree@...
> >
> > XWin was started with the following command line:
> >
> > /home/eho/XWin-1.7.1-1.unstripped -clipboard
> >
> > _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> > _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/IBM-6963EB6C3F2:0
> > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener
> for inet6
> > warning: Lowest section in
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/wmi.dll is
> .text                                        at 76d31000
> > winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> > (II) xorg.conf is not supported
> > (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for
> more informa                                       tion
> > winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc
> > LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file...
> > winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
> > winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> > winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> > winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> > winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> > winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> > winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of
> 32 bits
> pe                                       r pixel
> > winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> > Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0).
> > MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled
> due to
> lack                                        of shared memory support in the kernel
> > (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
> > (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
> > [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/,
> removing f                                       rom list!
> > [New thread 1120.0x2098]
> > winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 336
> > (--) 5 mouse buttons found
> > (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> > (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
> > Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none"
> Options =                                        "none"
> > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
> > winInitClipboard ()
> > [New thread 1120.0xee0]
> > winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
> > winClipboardProc - Hello
> > DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
> > winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0
> > winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=:0.0
> > [New thread 1120.0x2338]
> > [New thread 1120.0x2594]
> > winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully
> opened the display.
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x005168a1 in damageRegionAppend (pDrawable=0x103bd878,
> >      pRegion=0x22cbcc, clip=1,
> subWindowMode=0)>      at
> /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-
> server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:290
> > 290     /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-
> server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-
> 1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c: No such file or directory.
> >          in
> /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-
> server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c
> > (gdb) bt full
> > #0  0x005168a1 in damageRegionAppend (pDrawable=0x103bd878,
> >      pRegion=0x22cbcc, clip=1,
> subWindowMode=0)>      at
> /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-
> server-1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:290
> >          pScreen
> = (ScreenPtr) 0x1008c8e8
> >          pScrPriv
> = (DamageScrPrivPtr) 0x1008da38
> >          pDamage
> = (DamagePtr) 0x104ec960
> >          pNext =
> (DamagePtr) 0x100944d0
> >         
> clippedRec = {extents = {x1 = 0, y1 = 0, x2 = 0, y2 = 0},
> >    data = 0x61c8a8}
> >         
> pDamageRegion = (RegionPtr) 0x1008a990
> >          pixClip
> = {extents = {x1 = -13416, y1 = 34, x2 = -5217,
> >      y2 = 83}, data = 0x103bd890}
> >          draw_x =
> 6386704>         
> draw_y = 2280360
> >          screen_x
> = 0
> >          screen_y
> = 0
> > #1  0x00516d29 in damageDamageBox (pDrawable=0x103bd878,
> >      pBox=0x22cc10, subWindowMode=0)
> >      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-
> server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-
> 1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:425>          region = {extents = {x1 = 5, y1 = 152, x2 = 22, y2 = 169},
> >    data = 0x0}
> > #2  0x005184db in damageCopyArea (pSrc=0x104f8528,
> pDst=0x103bd878,>      pGC=0x104ed1b0,
> srcx=0, srcy=0, width=17, height=17, dstx=5,
> >      dsty=104)
> >      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-
> server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-
> 1.7.1/miext/damage/damage.c:946>          box = {x1 = 5, y1 = 152, x2 = 22, y2 = 169}
> >          ret =
> (RegionPtr) 0x103bd878
> >          pGCPriv
> = (DamageGCPrivPtr) 0x10368278
> >          oldFuncs
> = (GCFuncs *) 0x5eaba0
> > #3  0x00542692 in ProcCopyArea (client=0x10325578)
> >      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-
> server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/dix/dispatch.c:1731
> >          pDst =
> (DrawablePtr) 0x103bd878
> >          pSrc =
> (DrawablePtr) 0x104f8528
> >          pGC =
> (GC *) 0x104ed1b0
> >          stuff =
> (xCopyAreaReq *) 0x104eeba0
> >          pRgn =
> (RegionPtr) 0x8
> >          rc = 0
> > #4  0x0053f4ca in Dispatch ()
> >      at /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-
> server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-server-1.7.1/dix/dispatch.c:445
> > ---Type<return>  to continue, or q<return>  to
> quit---
> >         
> clientReady = (int *) 0x10129db8
> >          result = 0
> >          client =
> (ClientPtr) 0x10325578
> >          nready = 0
> >          icheck =
> (HWEventQueuePtr *) 0x6225c4
> >         
> start_tick = 0
> > #5  0x005395a0 in main (argc=2, argv=0x1005a3f0,
> envp=0x100480e0)>      at
> /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.7.1-1/src/xorg-
> server-1.7.1/dix/main.c:285
> >          i = 1
> >         
> alwaysCheckForInput = {0, 1}
> > (gdb)
>

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Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

by Jon TURNEY :: Rate this Message:

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On 03/11/2009 23:34, ERIC HO wrote:
> Hi Jon, the crash is not caused by doing some specific action or looking at
> specific pages in firefox.  Sometimes I sit on the Firefox screen and the
> cash happens. I ssh to the the remote Ubuntu Box and start up a
> gnome-session  there back to my display.

Over ssh, I can't even get gnome-session to start up properly, so I'm bit
stymied trying to reproduce this.

> I then bring up the firefox on the
> Ubuntu box. After a few clicks, the cygwin Xserver died. I tried starting
> the X server with -multiwindow, but could not even get a complete GNOME
> screen back.

You won't be able to get gnome-session to work with -multiwindow mode, as you
are already running the integrated window manager.

What I meant was, you should try starting the X server in -multiwindow mode,
then ssh'ing to your Ubuntu host and just running firefox

Are you sure that it is firefox that causes the X server crash? i.e. does the
crash not happen if you use other applications or just idle in your gnome session?

> I've tried  -query but did not get a screen back. It could be
> only ssh is allowed into the Ubuntu box.

Yes, it seems that XDMCP is disabled by default in Ubuntu 9.10 and they seem
to have neglected to provide a GUI to turn it on.

A quick google should reveal how to do that, e.g. [1]

[1] http://www.peppertop.com/blog/?p=690

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Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

by Eric Ho-4 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Jon, further testings show the issue is related to GNOME. XWin still crashed  after I started  GNOME-SESSION  and waited for some time without bringing up any apps. I',m able to ssh to the Ubuntu box and bring up xterm or firefox and do some work without any problems.  Since you can't even start up GNOME-SESSION, I am not going to pursue this issue anymore. Hopefully future upgrade will fix this problem. Thanks for your efforts.

Eric.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@...>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:46 am
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions
To: cygwin-xfree@...
Cc: ERIC HO <ericmho@...>

> On 03/11/2009 23:34, ERIC HO wrote:
> > Hi Jon, the crash is not caused by doing some specific action
> or looking at
> > specific pages in firefox.  Sometimes I sit on the
> Firefox screen and the
> > cash happens. I ssh to the the remote Ubuntu Box and start up a
> > gnome-session  there back to my display.
>
> Over ssh, I can't even get gnome-session to start up properly,
> so I'm bit
> stymied trying to reproduce this.
>
> > I then bring up the firefox on the
> > Ubuntu box. After a few clicks, the cygwin Xserver died. I
> tried starting
> > the X server with -multiwindow, but could not even get a
> complete GNOME
> > screen back.
>
> You won't be able to get gnome-session to work with -multiwindow
> mode, as you
> are already running the integrated window manager.
>
> What I meant was, you should try starting the X server in -
> multiwindow mode,
> then ssh'ing to your Ubuntu host and just running firefox
>
> Are you sure that it is firefox that causes the X server crash?
> i.e. does the
> crash not happen if you use other applications or just idle in
> your gnome session?
>
> > I've tried  -query but did not get a screen back. It
> could be
> > only ssh is allowed into the Ubuntu box.
>
> Yes, it seems that XDMCP is disabled by default in Ubuntu 9.10
> and they seem
> to have neglected to provide a GUI to turn it on.
>
> A quick google should reveal how to do that, e.g. [1]
>
> [1] http://www.peppertop.com/blog/?p=690
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
>

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