startx hangs on WinXP, xinit doesn't
Ariel Millennium Thornton
arielmt@thornton2.com
Sun Aug 22 20:27:00 GMT 2004
Hello, pv.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:29:04 -0700 (PDT) p v wrote:
[snip]
> The only difference in the execution of the two is the
> environment so I experimented and finally I commented
> this portion of startx script -
>
> if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" = x ]; then
> XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority"
> export XAUTHORITY
> fi
>
> Once I commented that out I get X to start correctly
> and the output is the same as it is with xinit on its
> own. It's been long time since I worked with X - any
> ideas why XAUTHORITY set makes startx to hang ?
> thanks
Was that really copied verbatim? If so, then there's the problem.
For a _test_ of equality, there should be two equal signs, not one. One
equal sign is an assignment, not a test. What that "if" is testing is
whether the assignment succeeds or not, not whether there really is an
XAUTHORITY or not, and odds are that's what's wrong.
-ArielMT
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