X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:10:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim McDaniel To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista In-Reply-To: <20080804005956.GC13008@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <4895F9A7.1030103@ca.rr.com> <20080804005956.GC13008@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:36:49PM -0500, tmcd@panix.com wrote: >> Since you just installed Cygwin and didn't configure it much, have you >> considered just uninstalling and reinstalling from a new mirror? > > The mirror checking software runs four times a day to weed out bad > mirrors. It's very unlikely that a new installation would have > problems that were due to a mirror. The original problem report mentioned it hanging during the download or install, I forget which. I wondered whether it might have been some odd networking problem with that particular mirror. (I've had odd networking problems in the past, even in Linux.) It's also an obvious fix technique, if it works, but he later said it didn't. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- 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/