startx (still) hangs at startup

[Barron J Bichon]

I actually just finished testing a fix posted by Alexander Gottwald to 
another user with a similar problem (I assure you I searched the posts 
in detail before posting my problem, but overlooked this one).  He 
suggested placing -kb in the XWin command line.  This worked!  Thanks 
for getting back to me.

Barron Bichon


Ken Dibble wrote:

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> Barron J Bichon wrote:
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>> 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
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> Barron,
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> 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
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