50% of xterms do not appear on screen.

[Geordy Korte]

The issue has been resolved.  The new drivers for the logitec camera
decided to hook into every single DLL on the system.  Uninstalling the
driver solves the issue.

Geordy
On 10/10/06, Geordy Korte <gkorte@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To start off with I have been using Cygwin for years and I must
> aplaude all of the dev team for the great work they do. Unfortunatly I
> have hit a snag which I really puzzeling me.
>
> I normally start an Xwin.exe server at startup. This works fine and
> the process runs. The I start xterm.exe processes using the attached
> script. Now about half the xterm that I start do not seem to hook into
> the Xwin server the other half hook fine and show me an xterm screen.
> It's just completely random and I cannot figure for the life of me
> what is stopping these hooks.
>
> Here is the output of Xwin.exe:
> _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1600 height: 1200 depth: 32
> 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=250, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00020409" (00020409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA, International)" (20409), type "4"
> (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> (--) 5 mouse buttons found
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
> removing from list!
>
> So we do the only thing that windows is really good at. Uninstall
> reboot and reinstall. No dice… Same problems. If I look at the taskmgr
> then I have about 40 xterms of which only 20 or so are on the screen.
> If I kill the X server then it only tells me that 20 clients are
> connected.
>
> Start xterm script:
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
> SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> SET XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> SET XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
> SET XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> SET XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale
>
> REM Main programming Window
> C:\cygwin\bin\run C:\cygwin\bin\xterm -cr red -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar
> -ms red -fg white -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
>
> Anyone have any clue on how to solve this?
>
>
> --
> ==============
> Geordy Korte
> ICQ 14458242
> MSN geordy @t nai.nu
> --
> ==============
> Geordy Korte
> ICQ 14458242
> MSN geordy@nai.nu
>


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Geordy Korte
ICQ 14458242
MSN geordy@nai.nu

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