There seem to be 00s or even 000s of strangely configured links under /etc/X11/, all taking the form a -> a. Often (always?) the link a -> a is located in a directory called a.
eg /etc/X11/rstart/commands/x11r6/x11r6 and any number under /etc/X11/xserver/ such as /etc/X11/xserver/en_US/en_US This seems to me to cause havoc with file handling resulting in multiple error msgs "No such file or directory" or "Too many levels of symbolic links". Fergus -- 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/