On 2023-10-16 15:31, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
Steps to reproduce: 1. Boot Windows 10 2. Log in 3. Open Cygwin terminal 4. Run "kate" Result: kate crashes Expected result: kate runs ---- snip ---- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 DERFWNB8353 3.5.0-0.438.g322c7150b25e.x86_64 2023-09-17 14:19 UTC x86_64 Cygwin $ gdb --args kate GNU gdb (GDB) (Cygwin 12.1-1) 12.1 Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [snip] (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/kate [New Thread 9784.0x29ac] [New Thread 9784.0x32c8] [New Thread 9784.0x4288] [New Thread 9784.0x4fa4] [New Thread 9784.0x4e18] QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-roland.mainz' [New Thread 9784.0x4350] [New Thread 9784.0x4a0] [New Thread 9784.0x159c] [New Thread 9784.0x19d8] [New Thread 9784.0x15f8] [New Thread 9784.0x24fc] process 170: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a backtrace
Don't you need XWin and dbus running and env vars set, the following files, get a clean OK from cygcheck, or be able to rerun the postinstall script:
$ ls -lgo /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id /etc/postinstall/dbus.sh.done lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 May 14 2013 /etc/machine-id -> ../var/lib/dbus/machine-id* -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 33 May 14 2013 /var/lib/dbus/machine-id* -rw-r--r-- 1 54 Aug 9 2017 /etc/postinstall/dbus.sh.done $ head /etc/postinstall/dbus.sh.done mkdir -p /var/lib/dbus /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure $ cygcheck -chv dbus -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple