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Re: Tight loop in Xwin startup under Win2k
- From: Jeffrey C Honig <jch at honig dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:15:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: Tight loop in Xwin startup under Win2k
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Jeffrey C Honig <jch@honig.net> wrote:
> I'm using Windows 2000 on a Dell C-600 laptop.
>
> After upgrading from 1.3 to 1.5 I've stared having my X startup go into
> a tight loop. This loop is so tight that I can not get the attention of
> the task manager or really do anything else except power-cycle the
> system. I've tried running a Cygwin bash shell w/o X and can not get
> any response out of that either.
I guess I need to clarify.
If I start a Cygwin bash shell and run top to see what is going on, it
hangs when I start Xwin.
The loop happens about 80% of the time.
I'm not sure if it is Xfree86 related or not. Considering that I can
kill Xwin (CTL-ALT-Backspace, or right clicking the system tray icon)
and the problem does not clear up it is probably more of a cygwin issue
than an xfree issue. I plan to post there also.
As to why I use .xinitrc and not startxwin.bat. I'm sharing my
configuration with multiple Unix machines. It's a bunch easier to copy
files around than try to do the same thing in both a .xinitrc and a DOS
BAT file.
Thanks.
Jeff
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