wonder wrote: [snip] > 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?
No, it's not clear. 1. Does XWin starts fine? (is your question really about a problem starting XWin?) 2. How do you "launch" X applications? (there shouldn't be any sh.exe started if you run something else) 3. Does disabling McAfee helps? -- René Berber -- 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/
