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: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:29:52 -0800 From: David Hinds To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: A vexing installation problem Message-ID: <20041130192952.GA2722@sonic.net> References: <20041129184442.GA30302@sonic.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20041129135305.046bca10@pop.prospeed.net> <20041129195946.GA4932@sonic.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20041129151309.046bfba0@pop.prospeed.net> <20041129215220.GA15085@sonic.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20041129171109.046d1728@pop.prospeed.net> <20041129231740.GA32760@sonic.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20041129181904.046bf960@pop.prospeed.net> <20041130011421.GA20359@sonic.net> <20041130170757.GA3861@sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041130170757.GA3861@sonic.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 at 05:50:29PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > Well, I suppose so, but subtle and borderline hardware failures can have > ever such bizarre, transient, and unpredictable consequences (cf. memory > timing issues and Sig11 failures at times of heavy stress Sure... but I don't think running /bin/true counts as heavy stress. > Have you got any kind of anti-virus or firewall software on that machine? I tried disabling the XP firewall as well as the anti-virus software and that had no effect. > For that, have you conceivably got some kind of virus, trojan, or > spy/adware infestation? It seems impossible, on a Windows box, to rule out that possibility. But the system has always been running updated Symantec anti-virus software and I have not observed other virus-like problems. > Finally, I noticed "SESSIONNAME = `RDP-Tcp#1'" Behavior is the same either on Terminal Server or at the keyboard. -- Dave -- 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/