gEDA-user: gschem on Cygwin and WinXP crashing

["Jack Dodds" <jack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently compiled and installed gschem under Cygwin on my WinXP computer. 

I followed the instructions at 

http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:cygwin

This is the first time I've used gschem and so far I like it.

However, it has been crashing quite frequently.

To run gschem I click on the Cygwin terminal icon on the Windows desktop.
In the Cygwin terminal I enter "startx".  Once the X server starts I enter
"gschem" in one of the xterm windows that comes up.

(Is there a better way?)

After the crash, the xterm window typically shows:

Assertion "pthreadnet == 0" failed: file
"/usr/src/ports/xorg/libxcb/libxcb-1.1-3/src/libxcb-1.1/src/xcb_in.c", line
73
Aborted (core dumped)

The directory C:\cygwin\usr\src is empty on my machine - so I am guessing
that the message was generated during the compilation of one of the
precompiled Cygwin libraries that I have downloaded onto my machine.

Versions:

gschem - 1.4.3.20081231

Cygwin - 2.573.2.3

WinXP - version 2002 Service Pack 3

I would appreciate any advice.


Jack Dodds
Geo Equipment Manufacturing Ltd.
Geotech Ltd.
245 Industrial Parkway North
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
L4G 4C4
Phone: 905-841-5004
Fax:   905-841-0611
Email: jack@xxxxxxxxxx




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