Re: Xwin freezing on startup.

["Alexander J. Herrmann" <ping2weltall at gmail dot com>]

Brent Easton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have researched as much as I can on this.
>
> 1. I am not running Zone Alarm 5 and I have Windows firewall turned off.
>
> 2. cygcheck.out attached.
>
> 3. I downloaded the current winGrass installation CD. Installation appeared to proceed without problems. My system is relatively clean, having been clean installed from scratch a couple of months ago.
>
> 4. I can start a bash shell and run commands with no problems.
>
> 5. Trying to start Xwindows through various means (grass61.bat, startx, running Xwin) all result in the X icon appearing in the system tray, but it never gets a context menu and no windows appear. Trying to run an X application cannot find an Xserver to connext. I can only stop the Xserver by killing it from the Windows Task Manager.
>  
Because you're running in MultiWindow mode so no background screen (root 
window) will appear only the Taskbar Icon. A right click on this should 
give you a menue to show the root window.
When starting a x-prog from bash did you set the DISPLAY environment 
variable prior to this like:
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
xclock
If not the x prog not knows to connect to which display.
Alex
http://www.aiengine.org

> 6. Using the command line
>
> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>
> produces the following output:
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-2
>
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
> (==) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT
> F/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/
> X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
> winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1280 height: 1024 depth: 32
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
> null screen fn ReparentWindow
> null screen fn RestackWindow
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
> InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
> InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar
> ed memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null
> )"
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
>
> 7. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Have also tried installing the Internet download method. Always the same problem.
>
> Any assistance appreciated,
> Regards,
> Brent.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Brent Easton
> Analyst/Programmer
> University of Western Sydney
> Email: b.easton@uws.edu.au
>  
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