Tight loop in Xwin startup under Win2k

[Jeffrey C Honig]

Jeffrey C Honig <jch@honig.net> 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.

I guess I need to clarify.

If I start a Cygwin bash shell and run top to see what is going on, it
hangs when I start Xwin.

The loop happens about 80% of the time.

I'm not sure if it is Xfree86 related or not.  Considering that I can
kill Xwin (CTL-ALT-Backspace, or right clicking the system tray icon)
and the problem does not clear up it is probably more of a cygwin issue
than an xfree issue.  I plan to post there also.


As to why I use .xinitrc and not startxwin.bat.  I'm sharing my
configuration with multiple Unix machines.  It's a bunch easier to copy
files around than try to do the same thing in both a .xinitrc and a DOS
BAT file.

Thanks.

Jeff

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