Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/03/08:53:39
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According to cygwin.overbored [AT] spamgourmet [DOT] com on 10/2/2005 7:36 PM:
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> I upgraded Cygwin, as advised, but it still didn't work. Since then
> I've been using cmd. However, today I discovered the solution: for
> some reason, I have to specify /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash instead of
> bash. This is strange, because bash exists nowhere else in my PATH
> (only /bin/bash and /usr/bin/bash), so rxvt couldn't have been
> executing something else.... Any clarification to this mystery would
> be appreciated.
What is your PATH at the time you invoke rxvt? If /bin and /usr/bin are
not in the path, then that would explain why it cannot find /bin/bash.
>
> Furthermore, while I was using cmd, if at any time during that cmd
> session I launched bash, then after exiting both bash and cmd, the
> terminal window would hang, and needs to be killed. This is both
> before and after the upgrade.
Can you try the latest snapshot, to see if the problem still exists in the
candidate for 1.5.19?
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