XWin hanging on start up ...

[Grant Deacon <grantdeacon at hotmail dot com>]

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting XWin to run, I've copied the default /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc but when I run xinit the window hangs and I have to kill the processes.  When I look at the applications tab in task manager I see the Cygwin/X 0:0 running, then another one appears and they both change to not responding.  In the processes tab I can see processes for xkbcomp.exe, xinit.exe and XWin.exe.  I've also added C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin to my path environment variable.

I'm running Norton 360 and have allowed XWin. I've also tried uninstalling Norton 360, same problem. I've tired a re-install of Cygwin and that doesn't work either.  I have a dual monitor display, 1920 x 1200 and 1280 x 1024 extended desktop, so I tried disabling one of the monitors but no luck.  I can't think of what else to try, I've run XWin before without any problems but that was a while ago.  The machine I'm using is a fresh install of Win XP SP2 I've just rebuilt hence installing cygwin again.  The machine is a Dell Dimension 8400 P4 3.4 GHz with 3GB RAM and a NVidia Geforce 6800 GT (lastest NVidia drivers) .....

I've also tried to run the default Start X - Server batch file, then in a cygwin shell setting DISPLAY to 127.0.0.1:0 or 127.0.0.1:0.0 and running xclock, X Server is in the system tray and the xclock process is running, but I don't get the clock on the screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks ......      :-)


output for xinit of /tmp/XWin.log


XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar
ed memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4"


Output of xinit

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.99.901-4

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

X :0

_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar
ed memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000809" (00000809)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null
)"
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