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From: Feng Dai <freedai@hotmail.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: X server fails to start
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20091228T222649-537@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hh5c2o$asl$1@ger.gmane.org>
Michael Lutz <Michi_cc <at> gmx.net> writes:
>
> 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
The root cause is checkX doesn't work properly. It cause XWin failed on
initClipboard and exit itself. The work around is either comment out checkX or
have a "sleep 3" to let XWin server startup before checkX runs.
Feng
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-28 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-17 13:48 Csaba Raduly
2009-12-26 17:00 ` Michael Lutz
2009-12-28 21:40 ` Feng Dai [this message]
2009-12-29 7:01 ` Charles Wilson
2009-12-29 7:02 ` Charles Wilson
2009-12-29 17:03 ` Feng Dai
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