Re: Freeze on startup

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Andy Schmidgall wrote:

> I thought reinstalling the latest version of cygwin/X might help with my
> remote login issues, but now I can't even get X started. It just freezes
> up. I'm not running ZoneAlarm (I used to, but it is long since
> uninstalled) and I tried remounting the /tmp directory in binary mode.
> If I go into the task manager and kill a shell process, then everything
> frees up and X starts running. Are there other programs that might be
> interfering?
>
> I tried removing the -multiwindow and -clipboard parameters from the
> command, but all that happened was that then I could see the
> unresponsive window.
>
> Here's my output:
> -----
> startxwin.sh
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-4
> [snip]
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> XWin -silent-dup-error

Could you run "procps auxww" in another shell and post the command line
for the shell process that hangs (i.e., the one you have to kill to get X
to start)?
	Igor
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