I figured out my problem.
I learned that startxwin.bat will hang in this manner if when
You install Cygwin, you choose DOS instead of UNIX for the
Default text mode prompt. I reinstalled Cygwin with a default
Text mode of UNIX and all works as expected now.
Jim
-Original Message-
Jim,
IIRC, you only need the /tmp to be binary-mounted (and the fonts
directory, but that mount is forced to be binary by the font packages
postinstall scripts). Instead of reinstalling everything with UNIX line
endings, you could have simply issued a
mount -f -b c:/cygwin/tmp /tmp
(provided
