Re: Tight loop in Xwin startup under Win2k

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Jeff,

Jeffrey C Honig wrote:
> Jeffrey C Honig <jch@honig.net> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm using Windows 2000 on a Dell C-600 laptop.
> >
> > After upgrading from 1.3 to 1.5 I've stared having my X startup go into
> > a tight loop.  This loop is so tight that I can not get the attention of
> > the task manager or really do anything else except power-cycle the
> > system.  I've tried running a Cygwin bash shell w/o X and can not get
> > any response out of that either.
>
>
> I guess I need to clarify.
>
> If I start a Cygwin bash shell and run top to see what is going on, it
> hangs when I start Xwin.
>
> The loop happens about 80% of the time.
>
> I'm not sure if it is Xfree86 related or not.  Considering that I can
> kill Xwin (CTL-ALT-Backspace, or right clicking the system tray icon)
> and the problem does not clear up it is probably more of a cygwin issue
> than an xfree issue.  I plan to post there also.
>
>
> As to why I use .xinitrc and not startxwin.bat.  I'm sharing my
> configuration with multiple Unix machines.  It's a bunch easier to copy
> files around than try to do the same thing in both a .xinitrc and a DOS
> BAT file.

Okay, well, my main point was: use startxwin.bat.  Try it after a reboot 
and see if the problem happens.  I would hate to spend time debugging a 
problem caused by your .xinitrc.  I know that startxwin.bat doesn't 
cause that sort of problem, so please try it and report your results.

Harold