Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

[Henry S. Thompson]

Brian Inglis writes:

>>  2) There are some hints that cygrunsrv/cygserver might be implicated.
>>     Two cygchecks on one of my machines (which did run to completion)
>>     differ in that the one taken while XWin had started successfully
>>     differed from the other in that all my Cygwin services (cron,
>>     cygserver, sshd, and exim) were stopped,
>>     In the other, a case of XWin hang, they were all running.
>> 
>>     On my other system after several fails in a row, I stopped all my
>>     services and XWin launched successfully.
>> 
>> Grasping at straws here, but I have one machine sitting in a hung state,
>> and other debugging ideas welcome...
>
> XWin startup takes different paths depending on whether you have sshd
> running or not.

Ah, interesting.

> I also have cygserver defined with max supported threads, as I have
> cron jobs which need them. I can often get multiwindow X to launch
> from mintty with sshd disabled, after deleting:

> $ llgo -AR /tmp/.X* /tmp/dbus-* /tmp/fam-$USER/fam-
> srwxrwxrwx  1  0 Mar  2 08:47 /tmp/dbus-QdAWXiPC8F=
> ...

Just stopping sshd didn't do it, I did eventually have to kill all 4 of
my services (cron, cygserver, exim, sshd).

But, I only did one trial after stopping each one, starting with sshd,
so this isn't definitive...

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