John Ormerod wrote: > ... all the willing help I've received - esp from Reid. I do > appreciate you all taking the time to give me info and clues etc. > > My conclusion is there is something on my system that > prevents Xwin.exe and / or xterm.exe from completely initialising. > > I've removed most of the original text of this apend, as > while I was closing down my stuff, I spotted something! > > From FAQ > > << > > 7.6. Why does Cygwin/X freeze right after startup? > > Zone Alarm 5 is known to break Cygwin/X. As a result you'll > see this line (or a similar) as last output in /tmp/XWin.log > > Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" > Options = "(null)" > > Disabling Zone Alarm will not solve this problem. You can > only uninstall Zone Alarm 5 and switch to an earlier version > (4.5 is known to work) or use a different personal firewall. > >>> > > I found this, but it is NOT in the xwin.log. By chance this > time, I had started xwin.exe in a cmd prompt and I could see > the stdout messages. These are pretty much what's in the log, > except for the last line! > > ==> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" > Options = "(null)" > > So, I guess that's it - it's ZA, bless it. I can't not use > it, so I guess I can't use Cygwin. Shame, I was getting quite > fond of it. > > As a long shot, I'll see if I can find the ZA forum and ask / search. > > BTW, I discovered what is making cygwin run slowly - it is > vsmon.exe that runs when ZoneAlarm anti-virus checking is on > (it usually is) - as soon as any X-component starts the cpu > consumption for vsmon rockets. > > Thanks again everyone > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > ------- > > John Ormerod > > erebor limited
Sorry to hear that... I use http://www.free-av.com/ as my anti-virus -- no problems with cygwin or cygwin/X. and i use my modem/router's configuration to not expose my PC to the internet, rather than running a PC firewall. reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
