Brian Inglis writes: >> 2) There are some hints that cygrunsrv/cygserver might be implicated. >> Two cygchecks on one of my machines (which did run to completion) >> differ in that the one taken while XWin had started successfully >> differed from the other in that all my Cygwin services (cron, >> cygserver, sshd, and exim) were stopped, >> In the other, a case of XWin hang, they were all running. >> >> On my other system after several fails in a row, I stopped all my >> services and XWin launched successfully. >> >> Grasping at straws here, but I have one machine sitting in a hung state, >> and other debugging ideas welcome... > > XWin startup takes different paths depending on whether you have sshd > running or not.
Ah, interesting. > I also have cygserver defined with max supported threads, as I have > cron jobs which need them. I can often get multiwindow X to launch > from mintty with sshd disabled, after deleting: > $ llgo -AR /tmp/.X* /tmp/dbus-* /tmp/fam-$USER/fam- > srwxrwxrwx 1 0 Mar 2 08:47 /tmp/dbus-QdAWXiPC8F= > ... Just stopping sshd didn't do it, I did eventually have to kill all 4 of my services (cron, cygserver, exim, sshd). But, I only did one trial after stopping each one, starting with sshd, so this isn't definitive... ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple