Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

["Jay Abel" <jabel at flex dot com>]

I'm having similar trouble, starting yesterday.  xterm and xclock both
hang as described, but xeyes, xfig and rxvt all work.

On 8/17/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) <reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Olumide wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > Yesterday, I started my X server as usual and followed by an
> > X-application (gnuplot), which refused to start up. At the same time the
> > XWin process stopped working, in fact it had stopped page faulting. On
> > terminating the XWin process I got the following message
> >
> > XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> > "127.0.0.1:0.0" (IP address changed)
> >       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > All of this is really strange. The only change/installation I made to my
> > system yesterday was to install a logitech webcam.
>
> Remove it again.  I think you'll find that solves the problems you were
> seeing.  Logitech drivers are known to cause problems.  Cygwin is one of
> its lucky affected applications.  Search the email list archives for "dodgy
> apps" to find a list of software with buggy versions which can cause
> problems like this.
>
>
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