Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/06/12:44:27
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:
> On 6 Apr 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
> > Steve O <bub AT io DOT com> writes:
> >
> > > > no longer works -- it launches the window and hangs without ever
> > > > displaying anything. Typing a character crashes it.
> > >
> > > Your trace shows rxvt receiving a ^G and lots of nulls at startup
> > > which is odd. I couldn't tell too much more since your trace
> > > looks a lot different than a trace I made. You appear to have
> > > an older cygwin1.dll. Maybe upgrading will fix this?
> >
> > Thanks for looking at this at all. I'm running the latest cygwin
> > (1.3.22-1), so I don't think that's the explanation . . oops, I
> > _thought_ I was running 1.3.22, and so did part of cygcheck, but other
> > parts showed 1.3.20, so I re-installed and all is now OK. Not clear
> > to me how this happened, but thanks v. much for steering me in the
> > right direction.
> > ht
>
> Henry,
>
> A few quick questions: Did you stop all Cygwin processes before running
> setup.exe?
I believe I left one bash running by mistake.
> If not, did you reboot after upgrading the "cygwin" package?
Yes, although not immediately.
> Did setup.exe ask you to?
Yes.
What _didn't_ happen was the "you've got two cygwins" problems I would
expect based on passed experience with that sort of scenario, so I
assumed I was OK.
ht
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