Summary:
Since a recent update, launching xmgrace now fails with a SIGSYS, even
on a fresh Cygwin installation. I believe the cause is an update to
libXmHTML0, of which the current version is 1.1.7-12. When I roll
libXmHTML0 back to 1.1.7-11, xmgrace starts and works fine.
Description:
Today I freshly installed Cygwin on a new Windows 8 x86 system on
which it has never been installed before. I installed a number of
packages that I need, including Grace (since I use xmgrace). Once
setup completed, I ran XWin Server, and in the xterm that opens I ran
xmgrace, like I always have done in the past on other machines. The
result:
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Warning: XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed
Oops! Got SIGSYS
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Aborted (core dumped)
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I tried a rebaseall, but that didn't solve the problem.
I went over to another machine (Windows 7 x64), where I had an
existing and working Cygwin installation and where I used xmgrace a
lot. I ran Cygwin setup on that machine to do an update, and let it
update approx. 150 packages. After the update completed, I ran Xwin
Server, and in the xterm I ran xmgrace. In the past this worked, but
this time it gave an error identical to the one above.
I went digging through the list of packages that were updated today to
try and identify which one may be causing the problem. I noticed that
libXm4-2.3.4-1 was freshly installed today, and I had no libXm4
packages before. In fact I had no packages under X11/motif before
today. So I went looking at the dependencies, and noticed that while a
decent number of packages use libXm4, I have almost none of those
installed. libXmHTML0 stood out to me, as it's a direct dependency of
Grace. This gave me the idea to roll libXmHTML0 back to 1.1.7-11. It
looks to me that 1.1.7-11 depends on libXm2 and not on libXm4. The
roll back to 1.1.7-11 solved the problem with xmgrace.
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