On 27 Dec, Mark Allen wrote: > sh.exe sits on close to 100% cpu usage until I kill it manually, and nothing > > is displayed on the x server (command line version seems to work, but is > missing several basic commands like ssh for some reason). > > I've looked through the mailing lsit & seen zonealarm can be a culprit for > these kind of symptoms, I do not have zonealarm installed, the only similar > program is the mcafee security center & privacy service (which I cannot > disable). I don't know if these cause the same issues as zonealarm.
We see that and worse if there is another X server already running on the system - in fact it tends to force a reboot. (Xwin32, IIRC.) Yes, I know you should not run two X servers. It only happens by user error. luke
