Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/12/00:30:24
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From: "Luciano" <lucianoav AT gmx DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Cygwin driving me crazy
> Hi.
> I am a Cygwin newbie. I used it three years ago, dropped it and
> resumed it now. This time I am enjoying it a lot, except for one
> problem that is really driving me up the walls.
>
> It freezes at startup. In at least 5 or 6 out of every 10 times I
> launch it (Bash or ZSH), an empty window is open forever, the shell
> won't start. The only solution is to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, kill bash or
> zsh, then kill Winoldap then try again. Sometimes I have to try again
> as many as 4, 5, 6 times until it works. I run Wintop to see what the
> heck is going on, it seems that if I call bash with the .bat file
> provided, other programs are run before, like tr and hostname, and
> sometimes one or tow of these freeze. I prefer to call bash.exe or
> zsh.exe directly, but they still freeze. I felt tempted to blame
> rxvt, but even if I don't use it and call bash or zsh directly,
> they'll freeze. Not always, but very often.
>
> I blame Cygwin because although I didn't use Cygwin with that Unix
> directory structure all these years, I've always had many GNU tools
> in one single directory, and an old version of cygwin1.dll to
> support them. I never had this problem until a few days ago, when I
> installed almost all of Cygwin (minus graphics and devel), replacing
> all the exes and cygwin1.dll with the latest versions. I used to call
> bash.exe directly, it worked fine. Have you heard anything like that
> before? Do you even suspect what could be wrong? I'm using Win 98 SE.
>
> Many thanks,
> Luciano ES
> Santos, SP - Brasil
>
>
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>
Luciano-
winoldap is a hack put in to allow DOS to be called from Windows DLLs
I could'nt find anything like it on my system..
My suggestion is to take winoldap.exe out of the path and re-run..
Hth,
Martin
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