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 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:36:28 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP) - 2 attachments Message-ID: <20040804143628.GE15068@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040803201806.GA24082@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20040804044219.GB14293@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20040804142632.GD15068@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040804142632.GD15068@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:26:32AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:02:13PM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote in >>news:20040804044219.GB14293@trixie.casa.cgf.cx: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:29:41AM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote: >>>>- If I run "ver /r" from the 4NT window, with my current directory on >>>>c: \ (which is my WinXP boot drive), it says: >>>> >>>>4NT 5.00U Windows XP 5.1 4NT Build 125 Windows XP Build 2600 Service >>> Are you sure that you're running the same version of cygcheck in each >>> case? Your path is different between the 4nt and cmd case (see below). >>> >>> In either event, you don't seem to have a mount table, if you are >>> reporting the total output of cygcheck.exe. That's certainly a >>> problem. >>> >>> If you aren't reporting everything that cygcheck reports you should >>> perform a cygcheck -rsv in both the failing and working cases and send >>> them here as attachments. >>> >>Okay, I should have included the complete listings in both cases, sorry >>about that!! >> >>It *does* appear that I only have one copy of cygcheck.exe on my disk, >>according to Find. However, 4NT and CMD.exe *do* run with different >>paths, is it possible that's related to my problems somehow?? Here are >>the complete cygcheck listings, included as attachments (does that really >>work?? > >If by "work", you mean uuencode the output of two files, include them inline, >and make them tedious to extract, then yes, it worked. > >FYI, this isn't a newsgroup, it's a mailing list. You're accessing the cygwin >mailing list via the Gmane which is an unofficial news gateway to this list. I found this in your cygcheck output as one of your environment variables in the failing 4NT case: __COMPAT_LAYER = `Win98 DisableThemes ' This is the cause of your problems. I don't know what's setting it (4nt\4start.btm maybe?) but if you unset it, things should work correctly. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/