Cygwin/X server displays nothing, sh.exe hangs

[luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au]

On 27 Dec, Mark Allen wrote:
>  sh.exe sits on close to 100% cpu usage until I kill it manually, and nothing  
>  is displayed on the x server (command line version seems to work, but is  
>  missing several basic commands like ssh for some reason). 
>   
>  I've looked through the mailing lsit & seen zonealarm can be a culprit for  
>  these kind of symptoms, I do not have zonealarm installed, the only similar  
>  program is the mcafee security center & privacy service (which I cannot  
>  disable). I don't know if these cause the same issues as zonealarm. 

We see that and worse if there is another X server already running on
the system - in fact it tends to force a reboot.  (Xwin32, IIRC.)

Yes, I know you should not run two X servers.  It only happens by user
error.

luke