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Re: Duplicate invocation problem with xwin.exe


Martin Gill wrote:
Ok, managed to find out what the problem was.

Seems it's Zone Alarm. I had to completely uninstall it to solve the
problems.

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else ever has the same problems.

I've sent a note to ZA support... if they offer a solution i'll post it
here.


On cygwin, some of the socket interface is emulated by using loopbacks on internet sockets, so Xwin, Xinit, and several other programs need to have access to the internet, and Xwin needs server rights. If server rights are denied, xterm would not have been able to connect to the X server (and might have attempted to reinvoke xinit...I'm not sure whether there is any special handling in there).


Did you check ZA before uninstalling to make sure you hadn't blocked access?


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