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Re: startx hanging - startup problem located
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, "martouf ." <martouf5 at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:16:10 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: startx hanging - startup problem located
- References: <fb3f50fc050428153138b6c6e5@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, martouf . wrote:
> in reference to my earlier message
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-03/msg00048.html
> and the following message
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00152.html
>
> I can state I am -not- having a "personal firewall problem". With the
> help of 'Process Explorer' from sysinternals.com, I have been able to
> determine it is caused by 'cat.exe' using >90% CPU.
XWin tries to start xkbcomp. This process start fails because ZoneAlarm
has broken the network stack and the cygwin fork emulation does not work
properly. Disabling XKB is a workaround but not the solution. Every user
which had this problem could confirm that uninstalling ZoneAlarm 5 (just
disabling does not help) did solve the problem. So this is obviously a
firewall problem.
bye
ago
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