X startup hangs

[Arturus Magi]

electa wrote:
>>ZoneAlarm is known to change the behaviour of Windows
>>TCP/IP stack and this seems to cause troubles with cygwin since cygwin
> 
> must provide unix
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>>like semantics and has problems if something does not work it was
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> expected.
> 
> 
> But I tried shutting down Zonealarm--> X still hangs. Do you think it ss
> really a ZoneAlarm problem?
> 

ZoneAlarm replaces the TCP stack with it's own.  You cannot fully shut 
it down until after uninstalling it and rebooting.

The most recent version of ZA broke every POP/SMTP mailer on my system. 
  Shutting it down, removing it from start up and rebooting did nothing 
to change that.  Uninstalling it magically fixed everything, and several 
other problems I hadn't attributed to ZoneAlarm as well.