X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:21:51 -0400 Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <20080827204102.GA15077@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:55:54PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >I've recompiled screen for Cygwin 1.7. It runs fine until I do the following: > > > >* Open a cmd console and run c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --login . > >* Start a new screen session (screen). > >* Detach the screen session (C-a d). > >* Exit bash. > >* Try to start bash again. > > > >Then I get: > > > > 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. > > I can duplicate this and should have it fixed soon. > > Thanks for the simple to reproduce test case. This problem is fixed in 2008-09-11. > >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? The problem persists in 2008-09-11. $ cygcheck -svr Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 11 20:21:00 2008 Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 11 20:21:00 2008 Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 11 20:21:01 2008 Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 11 20:21:01 2008 Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 11 20:21:01 2008 Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 11 20:21:01 2008 Thanks, Andrew. -- 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/