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Re: X startup hangs
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote:
> > newer test:
> > startx -- -kb -clipboard => starts cat and I must kill him to go on
> > xinit -- -kb -clipboard => X startup ok!
> >
> and so this is why in my straces there is no cat running: i straced xinit,
> because startx is not a program!
FYI: you can use 'strace sh -c "startx -- -kb -clipboard"' to strace
startx (or any other shell script).
Igor
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