Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/07/06:20:08
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:
> On 6 Apr 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Henry,
>
> Did the reboot help?
No.
> Or did you reinstall before the reboot?
No.
> FYI, you would not have gotten the two cygwin DLLs problem since the new
> DLL would not be seen as a DLL until the reboot (the extension would have
> been ".new").
Right. Thanks again, but Let's drop this, in-so-far as I don't have a
well-documented story of the steps I went through.
ht
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