startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard

[Othmar Marti]

Hello,

thanks for the message.

I do ned the german keyboard, because the laptop has it (and I hate 
remembering the keys).

bye

Othmar Marti


On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> and thanks for the hint.
>>
>> It did not work. I am not using Zonelabs, I am using McAfee. remounting
>> /tmp did not work either.
>
> Mayn personal firewalls and virus scanners alter the behaviour of the windows
> sockets. Because of the difficulty of the fork emulation the cygwin library
> relies on the standard bahaviour of the windows TCP/IP stack and may fail
> if it is changed unless someon who notices such problems starts to track the
> problem down.
>
>> Playing around I discovered that setxkbmap.exe hangs with the same
>> symptoms. The task manager shows sh.exe with 99% activity over minutes
>> (until you stop it)
>
> If you don't need a non-us keyboard layout, you can disable the XKB extension
> and xkbcomp by adding the -kb parameter to the XWin commandline.
>
> bye
> 	ago
>

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