startx hangs on WinXP, xinit doesn't

[Dr.D.J.Picton]

> 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.  

Not true - the syntax is correct, but the action (set XAUTHORITY to a default
value if it isn't already set to a non-null string) is inappropriate.   The 
Cygwin X server gets upset if XAUTHORITY doesn't point to a valid authority file
containing correct data.