startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard

[Othmar Marti]

Hello

the problem is solved: I installed the latest bug-fixes from windows today 
and now sh.exe does not hang anymore...

Othmar 
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote:

> 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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