RE: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-33

["Andrew Braverman" <abraverman at itms dot com>]

I seem to be the one not to have any luck lately.  I tried running this
package and get a standard windows "XWin-33.exe has encountered a problem
and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience." message.  There
was no useful stackdump.  After going through my batch file, I found that if
I put a "sleep 2" before the "xhost +hostname" command that I have in the
file, XWin does not crash.  If I use "sleep 1", it sometimes crashes.  With
no sleep, it crashes.  I have attached an XWin.log from one of the attempts
with no sleep.

- Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-announce-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-announce-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L
> Hunt II
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:32 AM
> To: cygxannounce
> Subject: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-33
>
>
> Announcement
> ============
>
> The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-33 'test' package has been updated in
> the Cygwin
> distribution.
>
>
> Links
> =====
>
> Server source, direct link:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/xwin-20040107-2
315.tar.bz2
> (137 KiB)
>
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin (all files) diff against 4.3.0-32
> source code:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/xwin-4.3.0-32-t
> o-4.3.0-33.diff
> (113 KiB)
>
>
> Changes
> =======
>
> 1) General - If you use the diff above, note that the Imakefile was
> missing from previous tarballs, so this diff includes the whole
> Imakefile.  I have updated my source packaging script so that this
> does not happen again.  Also, the source code in this release has
> already been committed to the xorg repository on freedesktop.org's
> CVS.  (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 2) winauth.c - New File - Move winGenerateAuthorization into this new
> file.  This function generates a cookie to be used by the clipboard
> client for authorization when using Xdmcp.  (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 3) winglobals.c - New File - Start moving global variables into this
> file.  (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 4) winclipboardwrappers.c - New File - Move all clipboard wrappers of
> ProcVector and InitialVector funtions into this file.
> (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 5) winprocarg.c - New File - Move winInitializeDefaultScreens and
> ddxProcessArgument from InitOutput.c into this file.  The same will be
> done eventually for other functions in InitOutput.c.  (Harold L Hunt
> II)
>
> 6) win.h, General - Get started on removing "extern" declarations
> from win.h by including explicit references to extern symbols in the
> source files that use those symbols.  The long term goal is to start
> breaking up the monolithic win.h header file.  (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 7) Xserver/dix/dispatch.c/Dispatch() - Add hook to OsVendorReset
> function that can be optionally defined in the DDX layer when
> DDXOSRESET is defined.  (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 8) InitOutput.c/OsVendorReset() - New Function - Send a message to
> the clipboard client telling it to shutdown, then wait for the
> clipboard client thread to exit before proceeding.  This allows us to
> cleanly shutdown the clipboard client.  Incidentally, I noticed that
> the previous code would spawn *additional* clipboard client threads
> when the X Server was reset; this was happening because we trapped IO
> errors and attempted to reconnect when they happened.  There was no
> code that told a clipboard client thread to exit when the server was
> being reset so that it could be replaced by a new clipboard client
> thread (which was happening correctly).  This should lead to greater
> stability across X Server resets, though I did discover that this
> version and previous versions where shutting down after two or three
> resets without any error message being logged nor exception being
> thrown.  That problem will be looked into later.  (Harold L Hunt
> II)
>
> 9) winclipboardinit.c, winclipboardthread.c, winclipboardxevents.c,
> winclipboardwndproc.c - Fix problems getting killed by Xdmcp code and
> remote XDM/KDM/GDM client on startup.  Fix problems not being
> authorized to connect when using Xdmcp by calling XSetAuthorization
> and passing it our cookie that was created earlier; this removes the
> need to save the cookie to a .Xauthority file.  Watch the CLIPBOARD
> selection in addition to the PRIMARY selection and track which was
> changed within X last so that we know which one we should paste within
> Win32.  Fix crashes when the server resets (as explained above, it
> still exits after one or two resets, for an unknown reason).  The
> improved clipboard code should now be good to go.  (Harold L Hunt
> II)
>
> 10) winmultiwindowwm.c - Clean up the startup of the two multi-window
> threads.  Create separate error and IO error handlers for the XMsgProc
> thread since it was using the same IO error handler as another thread
> and would try to longjmp into the other thread if it received an IO
> error, which was likely causing some crashes.  The multi-window code
> needs additional work to confirm that it properly shuts down and exits
> both threads; something similar to the clipboard shutdown message in
> OsVendorReset will be needed.  (Harold L Hunt II)
>
> 11) winclipboardxevents.c - Find and fix a last minute bug that caused
> Unicode clipboard translations to be broken.  (Kensuke Matsuzaki,
> Harold L Hunt II)
>
> --
> Harold Hunt
>
> To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
> the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
> system.  Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "XFree86"
> and then click on the appropriate field until the above announced
> version number appears if it is not displayed already.
>
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