X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:54:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty Message-ID: <20080828135413.GB14314@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080827204102.GA15077@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > 3 [main] bash 212 c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - Can't >> >create master tty >> >> You forgot to mention that you need to set CYGWIN=tty before starting the process. > >Yep, I did. Standard for screen in a DOS console, so I forgot to mention it. > >> It should be fixed in the next snapshot. > >Good, thanks. > >> >N.B. no cygcheck -svr here, since cygcheck seems to be totally broken for me in >> >1.7-- see next message. >> >> I can duplicate the cygcheck problem on one machine but not on the machine where >> I do development unfortunately. >> >> Do you have the same problem with a cygcheck.exe from a snapshot? > >Should I use the latest at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, or is there a different >location for 1.7 snapshots? That's one of those questions that is pretty easily answered by "just try it". There is only one snapshot location and it is always against the mainline of development which is 1.7. 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/