start_xwin.bat hangs when starting X-Windows

[<uwe dot schneider at bhf dot ing dot com>]

Hi Everybody!

As the subject suggests, start_xwin.bat hangs somewhere when starting X-Windows. I am running start_xwin.bat at WINDOWS and I am trying to query a SUN Solaris machine. The line which invokes the X-Server is:

    start /B XWin -query <server> -fullscreen -unixkill -fp tcp/<server>:7100

The log file <cygwin root>/tmp/XWin.log contains the following messages:

----------------------- BEGIN LOG -----------------------------------
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.7.0.0-9

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

XWin was started with the following command line:

XWin -query bkweb -fullscreen -unixkill -fp tcp/bkweb:7100 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 2560 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
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
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000003
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDD - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel
winAllocateFBShadowDD - Not changing video mode
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f
winInitVisualsShadowDD - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16
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: "00000407" (00000407) 
(--) Using preset keyboard for "German (Germany)" (407), type "4"
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
----------------------- END LOG -------------------------------------

Then the process hangs. The cursor is changed to a busy-watch at the entire WINDOWS screen and the process can only be stopped via the WINDOWS task manager. At the time the task manager appears on the screen, the root screen changes to white color, indicating that the X server has taken some control over the display.

The same startup script is working against another target server (also SUN Solaris), which means that the configuration of xfree86 at my PC is O.K.

But, when opening a local X11 root screen (at my PC), I "am" able to establish a ssh session to the remote server, sending xterm's to my local display. So, the only thing which does not seem to work is to get a connection to the UNIX server's X login screen (dtlogin).

Does anybody got an idea of what's going wrong here?

Please, answer also to the email address "uwe.schneider@bhf.ing.com".

Best Regards and thausend thanx in advance!

   Uwe Schneider

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