[xcrysden] Xcrysden stopped launching but gives no error message

[Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza]

Thank you. Yes, it must have been something with Xming. I was not able to get hold of the administrators because the campus was closed since Thursday because of the storm. However, today while trying to test Xming, I decided to reboot the machine manually and that resolved the issue. Thank you so much for your help and patience.


Marisol AlcántaraOrtigoza, PhD

Assistant Professor

Physics Department

Tuskegee University

1200 West Montgomery Road

106 Chappie James

Tuskegee Institute, AL 36088

Office hours FA24: Tu&Th 12pm-1:30pm; W 10:30 am-1:30pm; F 1pm-2pm

Appointments FA24: Tu&Th 10am-11am and F 2pm-4pm

Email:malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu

Fax: (334)724-3917
Website:http://marisolalcantaraortigoza.info/

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From: Gavin Abo <gabo13279 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 10:26 PM
To: xcrysden at democritos.it <xcrysden at democritos.it>
Cc: Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza <malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu>
Subject: Re: [xcrysden] Xcrysden stopped launching but gives no error message


With them being managed by your institution, I suspect they are administrating the group policies and firewalls on the laptops too.  Have your admin check those as that is another possibility were they could have blocked the X11 forwarding or they could have a different set of security policies pushed to the laptops.


Kind Regards,

Gavin

XCrySDen user


On 9/25/2024 8:42 PM, Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza wrote:
Thank you so much for your prompt response.
Yes, at least 7 have the same OS. The updates of Windows take place automatically in all of them because they are all under the control of my institution.

The installation was completed almost at the same time using the same cygwin package. After installation, we tested that xcrysden was working correctly. After that we did not change anything. In fact, we have no permission to modify any program.

We used the same setting in the .bashrc file. However, since students have access to that one, just in case, I copied the .bashrc from one of the computers to the other computer and now at least got an error.
Running on platform : unix
Operating system : CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22621
Package ImageMagick's convert: /usr/bin/convert
Package ImageMagick's import: /usr/bin/import
Executing: /xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-shared/bin/ftnunit
libGL error: Windows-DRI extension not available
Viewer: mesaWid = .mesa

But I noticed that such error appears in the other computers too and xcrysden launches and can be used anyway.

In the computer where xcrysden is not launching, after printing "Viewer: mesaWid = .mesa" it does not abort, it just hangs in there.

I cannot figure out why these computers are failing. The only common thing is that 2 out 3 of the computers were not used by students after we tested them.

Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thank you very much!





Marisol AlcántaraOrtigoza, PhD

Assistant Professor

Physics Department

Tuskegee University

1200 West Montgomery Road

106 Chappie James

Tuskegee Institute, AL 36088

Office hours FA24: Tu&Th 12pm-1:30pm; W 10:30 am-1:30pm; F 1pm-2pm

Appointments FA24: Tu&Th 10am-11am and F 2pm-4pm

Email:malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu<mailto:malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu>

Fax: (334)724-3917
Website:http://marisolalcantaraortigoza.info/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://marisolalcantaraortigoza.info/__;!!Pe9-MuB9P6Cr!U3sxQy7N9m2K4BrKe4myU0Qh1PPhamFkXqF_8yFfPG_AcC_lYVYSWaZBNjGi8WY9C6RG0qvWzPnX4ycW9RRp_IuCd7P7cQ$>

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Cc: Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza <malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu><mailto:malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu>
Subject: Re: [xcrysden] Xcrysden stopped launching but gives no error message


Was there a Windows 11 update that could of caused it?  If you open "About Your PC", do the ones the work and not work have the same or different OS build?


Was there any change to the installed cygwin packages?


If you check the .bashrc file on a system that works and doesn't work, are they the same?


Any other changes you can think of?  Systems all running the same Xming version?


Kind Regards,

Gavin

XCrySDen user


On 9/25/2024 12:39 PM, Marisol Alcantara Ortigoza wrote:
Hello,
In the Summer I successfully installed xcrysden 1.6.2 on 9 Windows 11 laptops via cygwin. Xcrysden was running fine for all of them for 2 months.  However, 3 of them are now having issues. Xcrysden is not launching, it does not give any error and just hangs in there. I have no clue what is happening. I would like to know if it is possible to solve this problem without uninstalling it and reinstalling it because installing Xming and Cygwin at my institution requires permissions that may take weeks to obtain.
Thank you very much for your attention,


Marisol AlcántaraOrtigoza, PhD

Assistant Professor

Physics Department

Tuskegee University

1200 West Montgomery Road

106 Chappie James

Tuskegee Institute, AL 36088

Office hours FA24: Tu&Th 12pm-1:30pm; W 10:30 am-1:30pm; F 1pm-2pm

Appointments FA24: Tu&Th 10am-11am and F 2pm-4pm

Email:malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu<mailto:malcantaraortigoza at tuskegee.edu>

Fax: (334)724-3917
Website:http://marisolalcantaraortigoza.info/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://marisolalcantaraortigoza.info/__;!!Pe9-MuB9P6Cr!TpNaxqfaSd03Rh8U88Zz19EdciKoA0C2eueo0nG_15A0xh-1lF0LbAN4xA8z2xMvoyGZ3yMyXOck-6Mqzjl9FAtQtg4Gbg$>
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