Re: startx (still) hangs at startup

[Barron J Bichon <barron dot j dot bichon at vanderbilt dot edu>]

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:

> 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