Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Jay Abel
I can no longer reproduce the problem. Whatever it was, it seems to have sorted itself out in that queasy "just try rebooting 50 times" way that windows 'fixes' iteself. Gah. On 8/18/07, Jay Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yikes. I turned off VirusScan on-access and buffer overflow checking,

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Jay Abel
Yikes. I turned off VirusScan on-access and buffer overflow checking, then xterm ran. So happy it was running, I forgot what I was doing and fixed some missing fields in my .xdefaults file (changed Xterm to xterm) and opened another window. No problem. xclock now runs, no problem. Re-enable bu

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Jay Abel
On 8/18/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Abel wrote: > > I'm having similar trouble, starting yesterday. xterm and xclock both > > hang as described, but xeyes, xfig and rxvt all work. > > And have you installed any "dodgy app" recently? > > -- > Larry Hall

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jay Abel wrote: I'm having similar trouble, starting yesterday. xterm and xclock both hang as described, but xeyes, xfig and rxvt all work. And have you installed any "dodgy app" recently? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (5

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Olumide
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: All of this is really strange. The only change/installation I made to my system yesterday was to install a logitech webcam. Remove it again. I think you'll find that solves the problems you were seeing. Logitech drivers are known to cause problems. Cygwin is one

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Jay Abel
I'm having similar trouble, starting yesterday. xterm and xclock both hang as described, but xeyes, xfig and rxvt all work. On 8/17/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olumide wrote: > > Hi - > > > > Yesterday, I started my X server as usual and followed by an > > X-application

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Olumide wrote: Hi - Yesterday, I started my X server as usual and followed by an X-application (gnuplot), which refused to start up. At the same time the XWin process stopped working, in fact it had stopped page faulting. On terminating the XWin process I got the following message XIO: fat

XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-17 Thread Olumide
Hi - Yesterday, I started my X server as usual and followed by an X-application (gnuplot), which refused to start up. At the same time the XWin process stopped working, in fact it had stopped page faulting. On terminating the XWin process I got the following message XIO: fatal IO error 104