Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms: Conflict with software FRITZ!DSLStartcenter

[Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail dot com>]

Norbert Harendt wrote:
> I was astonished to find the entries
> "C:\Programme\FRITZ!DSL\....DLL", so i tried to run XWin on a computer in our
> network which hasn't FRITZ!DSL-software, and ... it was running without any
> error or hang !!
> There a two computers with FRITZ!DSL-software on it, and on both XWin 
> and sh.exe hang on execution.
>
> So i identified the third-party conflict with FRITZ!DSL startcenter 
> (www.avm.de). What can i do now (except of deinstalling the 
> FRITZ!DSL software ??

$ strings sh.exe | grep dll
dll_crt0__FP11per_process
cygwin1.dll
cygintl-3.dll
cygreadline6.dll
KERNEL32.dll

Could it be that the FRITZ!DSL software somehow inserts itself into the 
loading process? Could it be a firewall of some sort? Can you play with 
not loading the FRITZ stuff (without uninstalling it), and running Xwin 
then?


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