Tight loop in Xwin startup under Win2k

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jeff,

Jeffrey C Honig wrote:

> I'm using Windows 2000 on a Dell C-600 laptop.
> 
> After upgrading from 1.3 to 1.5 I've stared having my X startup go into
> a tight loop.  This loop is so tight that I can not get the attention of
> the task manager or really do anything else except power-cycle the
> system.  I've tried running a Cygwin bash shell w/o X and can not get
> any response out of that either.
> 

Wait wait wait... are you saying that after a reboot you can run *only* 
a Cygwin bash shell and get this behavior?  If so, your problem is a 
general Cygwin problem and you need to write to the Cygwin mailing list.

> I'm using a derivative of the .xinitrc that I use on Linux and BSD which
> starts fvwm2 a xterms with tcshs and an emacs and a bunch of programs to
> figure out what to start and where.  I've pretty much disabled starting
> of any remote programs.
 >
> Anyone have any ideas here?

I think the advice would be to not use .xinitrc and instead try 
startxwin.bat.  If there are no problems with startxwin.bat, then the 
problem is probably with your .xinitrc.

Harold