X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43E02548.1000608@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:04:40 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery References: <87lkwwl9gq.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87lkwwl9gq.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been running cygwin in a laptop running XP home. It was working > as expected. However its been a while since I used it and not sure > what all has happened that might effect cygwin... but can think of > nothing off hand. > > However, now when I click the bash icon a terminal appears and just as > quickly disappears. I can't use any cygwin tools since the terminal > just flashes once and is gone. > > What on earth might cause such behavior? > It's not something on Earth. It has to do with the phase of the Moon. ;-) The standard approach to this kind of problem is to open a cmd.exe window and then run cygwin.bat from here. If there are error messages, you'll now be able to see and address them. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/