On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: > Take a look at next strace: > strace -o xinit.strace3 xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard
same as in the first trace. Right after startup of sh -c "xkbcomp ..." it stops while waiting for some winsock operation to complete. > Can you find why X hangs when I omit '-kb' in cmd-line? with -kb x start xkbcomp to generate the keymap. xkbcomp expects input on stdin but waits forever since ZoneAlarm 5 somehow interferes with pipes in cygwin. I'll send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too since it's low level cygwin bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/