XWin hangs

[kumarchi@comcast.net]

My xwin hangs after the following line

Using preset keyboard for  ....
Rules = ..

- Then I find there are 2 XWin processes and one xterm process.

after killing the the one XWin process 
I get thsi 
<EE> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre=XKB key map
..

then xterm opens. behaves weirdly
winClipboard complains it cannot open display
.

if I close the xterm and try again it just hangs..

I do not have zonealarm - I have tries plenty of stuff I cna think of short of rebuilding my system.

Is there some simple stuff I am missing?