Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

On 24/02/2015 19:35, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 24/02/2015 19:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote:
>>
>>>       The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now
>>> crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use.  Since this issue does
>>> not get reported in xwin.0.log or xwin.0.log.old, I do not yet
>>> know how to provide more information.
>>
>> I have seen this also. It only happens on my PC at home, if I leave it
>> alone for hours on end.  It's not nearly as frequent as 5-10 minutes.
>> I need to check the log files again, but I don't remember seeing
>> anything there the first time I looked.
>
> With regard to the crash problems, can you please try the instructions
> at [1] to generate a backtrace.
>
> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html

Possibly this was xlaunch deciding that the X server hasn't started 
successfully after ~12 minutes or so, and killing it.

So don't bother, unless you have crash problems after upgrading to 
xlaunch-20150224-1, or when not using xlaunch.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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