Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Luciano Subject: Cygwin driving me crazy Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 29 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Xnews/5.03.24 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 -- 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/