startx (still) hangs at startup

[Ken Dibble]

Barron J Bichon wrote:

> 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


Barron,

I have XP Home SP2 as well, and do not have this issue.
I recall from previous discussions about ZA that disabling is not the 
same as removing or uninstalling.
Have you tried complete removing your firewall?

Ken