Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C0BB9EB.7020606@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:44:11 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Booth CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.5 compatability with MS Windows XP References: <80256B17.005C890A.00@birmingham.gov.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Stephen Booth wrote: > Hi, > > Today one of my collegues tried installing Cygwin 1.3.5 and CYGWIN/XFree86 on to > a Compaq Deskpro EN 733MHz running Microsoft Windows XP RC2. I have previously > installed this onto Windows 2000 with no problems. > > Whilst the install seemed to work fine we ran into a couple of problems, i was > hoping that someone might be able to point us in the direction of where best to > investigate to resolve it. There's a buglet in setup.exe that causes new installs to (probably) install the wrong (old) version of packages on new installs. Re-run setup and it will correctly upgrade those packages to the current (newer) versions. > Firstly we found that sometimes programs seem to die before they start, that is > after hitting return at the end of the command line we are returned straight to > the command prompt without any error messages or other visual indications. This > was noted initially with telnet and vi and seemed to resolve it self with no > indication of how (it wasn't working then suddenly it was) and was seen both at > the command line and under X-Windows. Are you running in a bash shell, or are you trying to run cygwin programs directly from command.com/cmd.exe (or double-click from explorer? THAT won't work...) > Secondly X-Windows frequently dies when an X application exits or is killed. I > have posted separately to the CYGWIN/XFree86 list about this and include it here > for information only. Wong list for X related questions. Go to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com. But make sure non-X stuff works first. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/