From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21388 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2009 21:40:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 21380 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Dec 2009 21:40:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,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; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:40:08 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NPNJs-0000eO-Vr for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:40:05 +0100 Received: from 208.90.239.37 ([208.90.239.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:40:04 +0100 Received: from freedai by 208.90.239.37 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:40:04 +0100 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Feng Dai Subject: Re: X server fails to start Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <1ef5a52f0912170548i3ccc5b65ia768141d7ba31cd8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) 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/msg00106.txt.bz2 Michael Lutz 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 -- 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/