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Re: X startup hangs
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, electa wrote:
> still hangs...
> $ startx -- -kb -multiwindow -clipboard
>
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000410" (00000410)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "Italian" (410), type "4"
> (++) XkbExtension disabled
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing
> from li
> st!
It is getting beyond the point where it failed earlier.
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
> winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
>
> -------
> An important test:
> without -multiwindow, the X window appear.
> but she hangs sooner.
> in task manager, now cat.exe is running. (it gets 0% of CPU).
> if I kill cat.exe via task manager, an Xterm now appear in X window. X is
> ready now!
>
> What is doing cat with X?
maybe this is from the xinitrc script. Do you have .xinitrc in your home directory?
do you still get the cat started when doing
xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard
bye
ago
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