René Berber <r.berber <at> computer.org> writes: > > Dean C. Tsai wrote: > > > - NO, the Cygwin/X faq on keymap didnt solve my problem. > > > > - I have a Dell Laptop w/ XP running. I am guessing the keyboard map is not > > the problem. > > > > Permission error or not, I am not sure. However, I have created my-test in > > /tmp w/o problem... > > OK, so you eliminated permissions and keyboard map as the cause. > > > Do you have some idea about why and where "sh.exe" is called? I look through > > Cygwin/X's faq, it says very little about startup configuration. And I am > > embarrassed to admit that I don't know how to set option via command line?! > > .... I simple type 'startx' at the prompt. Do you know any good reference > > for X startup configuration? > > The sh you killed is the one running startx, which is a shell script.
> > The error message "Couldn't open compiled keymap file" comes from xkbcomp.exe, > but I'm confused here, in your first message the keyboard was recognized fine: I have a similar problem with startx or whichever way to start X. It was all ok before. The problem happened since yesterday. It probably has to do with the installation of the McAfee Privacy Service module. This module might have changed some settings on my computer. The symptom is that you can launch X applications, but nothing pops out. There are one or more instances of sh.exe running with (nearly) 100% CPU usage. Once you kill all sh.exe processes, the xterms will show up on your desktop. But anything that relies on sh.exe will not be able to run. For example, you can try SSH with X11 forwarding enabled. But it will invoke sh.exe and therefore won't get connected until you kill the newly invoked sh.exe. Unfortunately, the X11 tunnel will be broken after sh.exe is killed. I hope I have described clearly. Anybody has a solution? Thanks, wonder -- 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/
