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Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> Did you let it run long enough? Looks like it's trying to fork, and the
> DLLs are being loaded. Does the CPU show any activity during the "hang"?
> Does the disk? Try running it under strace to see if it's really a hang,
> a busy loop, etc. If you get any output at all during the "hang", XWin is
> probably doing something useful.
yes, i did. It will run forever with the Cygin/X-window still frozen
>
>
> Yes. XWin forks to be able to spawn off a process (in this case, xterm).
> You have killed the forked child, thus XWin is not able to create the
> xterm process. Don't do that.
Sorry, that is NOT correct, because xterm is showing in Cygwin/X-Window
immediately after killing the second XWin.exe. Xterm itself is NOT killed by
that action!
What is very atonishing is, that CPD-load under Windows is very heavy when
running XWin. And that is different to the former version i installed.
> HTH,
> Igor
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