Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet? Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:48:27 -0700 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-120-146-125.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Thunderbird/0.7.3 Mnenhy/0.6.0.101 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Avery Bunker wrote: > I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start > KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the > firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to > be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into the > firewall that KDE used but ot still would not start. It would freeze on > the splash screen. Unfortunately, the XP firewall's automatic popup when a program tries to open a port doesn't work if the program is a service that cannot interact with the desktop. Try starting the KDE processes as ordinary processes and see what alerts pop up. -- 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/