startx (still) hangs at startup

[Barron J Bichon]

I know this is a problem repeatedly posted on this list, but none of the 
solutions I have read seem to work for me.  I'm running cygwin with XP 
Home (SP2).  When I run startx I get this:


Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.2.0-1

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard

_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
(==) FontPath set to 
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT            
F/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/            
X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
pixel
winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 1024 
depth: 32
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 
bpp 32
null screen fn ReparentWindow
null screen fn RestackWindow
InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack 
of shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options 
= "(null)"


This is what is written to the screen, but my XWin.log file stops at the 
previous "Using preset keyboard..." line.  The large X icon appears in 
my system tray and then it hangs.

This is an error listed in the FAQ with two possible causes.  One is 
that I could be running Zone Alarm 5--I'm not, but I am running McAfee 
Personal Firewall Plus.  Disabling this doesn't fix the problem.  The 
other is that /tmp is mounted in textmode.  If I use

mount -b "$(cygpath -m /tmp)" /tmp

before running startx I still get the same problem.  I have also tried 
running without the -multiwindow option.  If I do this, I get a large 
window frame on my screen with "Cygwin/X Server - 0:0" in the title bar, 
but there is nothing in the frame (I can see my regular desktop through 
it) and it hangs.

Any ideas?  Thanks for your help,

Barron Bichon