On 2/28/20 8:21 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> After the recent upgrades to cygwin 3.1.4, perl, etc. I have found that the
> Cygwin-X Startup, Start Menu, and Task Bar shortcuts no longer work, although
> I
> can start Cygwin-X by running startxwin from a mintty window.
>
>>From the shortcut, the shell is invoked to run startxwin normally, two copies
>>of
> xinit fork, and Xwin runs and displays the start tray Xserver icon, but my
> mintty terminal and the xwin-xdg-menu clients don't start.
I think I am seeing the same problem. Here are a few observations.
1) The issue happens often, but not always, when starting with the
Windows shortcut. Currently, I am retrying a few times until the
startup works. I have been unable to reproduce the issue starting
startxwin from a mintty window.
2) XWin always seems to start fine.
3) If the issue comes up, I am always seeing the following hanging
process tree.
3969 cons0 S 0:00 \_ xinit ...
3970 cons0 S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/XWin ...
3974 ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/sh <defunct>
In Windows, this looks like so.
C:\cygwin64\bin\xinit.exe
\_ C:\cygwin64\bin\xinit.exe
\_ C:\cygwin64\bin\sh.exe
C:\cygwin64\bin\XWin.exe
Currently, I am killing the defunct sh, which seems to properly clean up
everything, and try again.
Ron
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