Uninstall McAfee FireWall and Privacy Guard solves the problem. Merely disabling them won't work. If anyone can come up with a solution that does not require uninstalling Fire Wall, it would be great.
--- Sheng Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > startx hangs in the middle of starting xwin. I am using windows XP > Professional with service pack 2 on Dell XPS. I have McAfee installed > on the machine. I tried disabling McAfee. Still got the same message. > The following is the XWin log of the starting process. > > Welcome to the XWin X Server > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Release: 6.8.2.0-4 > Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com > XWin was started with the following command line: > X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard > ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens > winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 > winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root > (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/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits > per pixel > winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 > 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=500, rate=31 > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" > > > At this point, the X icon shows in the task bar notification area. > But, > xterm does not start and no other X-application can be started > either. > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. > http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > > __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/