Re: -multiwindow crashes XWin.exe, twm does not

["Earle F. Philhower III" <earle at ziplabel dot com>]

Howdy Thomas....
At 06:25 PM 7/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Thomas L Roche wrote:
> >> WebSphere Studio products typically put up a configuration dialog,
> >> then display the full UI. When my startxwin.bat has
> ...
> Harold L Hunt II Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:37:11 -0400
> > You can install the Test 92 package via setup.exe by selecting the
> > following version of the XFree86-xserv package: 4.2.0-43
> So I installed that package from setup.exe and tried:
> * start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -unixkill
>   No change: I still get the startup dialog, then a GPF.
> * start XWin -multiwindow -unixkill
>   Same: dialog, then GPF.

Do you have a build environment set up?  If so, a compile in debug
mode of XWin.exe followed by a run of it in gdb should narrow things
down to a specific function.  That'd be something to go on for us
folks who don't have WebSphere running.

As an alternative, Harold, can we get a linkmap of the standard
build and compare addresses against the GPF address?  I've done this
for debugging MSVC apps at user sites, but am not sure how to get
the same effect under the Cygwin environment (or even if the link
addresses will correspond to the loaded addresses with the cygwin
stub...)

FWIW I've had just as good experiences with Test92 as with the
latest CVS versions.  My workload consists mainly of emacs, xterm,
rxvt, and a bunch of commercial EDA tools from a wide variety of
vendors.  Normally I start XWin.exe and leave it running for a week
or two (unless there's a MS patch that needs me to reboot, which is
kind of often...).


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