From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22314 invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2009 17:00:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 22298 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Dec 2009 17:00:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:00:13 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NOZzt-00037a-M9 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:00:09 +0100 Received: from p5483dd0d.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.131.221.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:00:09 +0100 Received: from Michi_cc by p5483dd0d.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:00:09 +0100 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Michael Lutz Subject: Re: X server fails to start Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <1ef5a52f0912170548i3ccc5b65ia768141d7ba31cd8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <1ef5a52f0912170548i3ccc5b65ia768141d7ba31cd8@mail.gmail.com> OpenPGP: id=31DEFEF1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-12/txt/msg00102.txt.bz2 Am 17.12.2009 14:48 schrieb Csaba Raduly: > X used to work for quite a while but now it doesn't. The X icon > appears and disappears. > It seems to have developed a fixation with "another window manager", > according to the log. Not even a reboot helps. I have the same problem after upgrading to 1.7.1. Commenting the checkX call in startxwin.bat out and replacing it with 'sleep 5' makes it work for me. Michael Lutz -- PGP encrypted mails preferred. 4096/1024-bit DH/DSS key, ID 0x31DEFEF1, created 2001-03-02 FP: 5305 7CF5 09E9 EFF6 E12F D3D2 CD12 A090 31DE FEF1 -- 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/