X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:40:45 -0700 From: Aaron Humphrey To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin.bat improvements (was Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery) In-Reply-To: <43E0360F.C2CF85F9@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <013120061516.12540.43DF7F67000B576B000030FC22058891160A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <87mzhbkb9k.fsf@newsguy.com> <43E02D37.6456298F@dessent.net> <20060201035104.GA12232@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <43E0360F.C2CF85F9@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k11HesFK004449 On 1/31/06, Brian Dessent wrote: > Well that would certainly work for the case of a missing bash. I guess > I was thinking that the marker file method would work for a wider range > of brokenness where for whatever reason the shell fails to start and/or > complete its initialization. Having never experienced this personally I > can't really come up with a set of possible scenarios of brokenness, but > it seems we get do get a lot of "bash window flashes briefly and then > disappears" reports. Are they all just missing bash.exe? The one time I had trouble starting up with cygwin.bat, it was because of a virus that was instantly killing any process with "sh" in its name. Not that running it from the DOS window produced a lot of useful information in this case, but it is a counterexample. -- --Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Pat Benatar:Get Nervous Current Book--Dick Francis:Second Wind Ebenezer unexpectedly bagged two tranquil aardvarks with his jiffy vacuum cleaner. -- 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/