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Subject: Re: <Ctrl-D> often does not successfully exit rxvt and close it down
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:55:08 -0400
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On 2010-03-31 04:50, Fergus wrote:
>  >> <Ctrl-D> fails to close down an rxvt terminal window
>  >> and I am left with the terminal window showing
>  >> $ exit
>  >> and not shutting down.
>
>  > The incidence of failures is today about 80%.
>  > Anybody else?
>
> 1 Now indistinguishably close to 100% but not actually guaranteed.
> 2 Still unable to identify any pattern or common items in the task
> history in any session where <Ctrl-D> fails to exit.
> 3 X-ing the rxvt terminal window does not close it: I have to use "End
> Task" in Windows Task Manager.
> 4 Re-installing rxvt made no difference.
> 5 Reverting to [prev] made no difference.
> Uncertain whether a recent rebaseall might have triggered the problem
> (the only high-level platform-related task I have recently undertaken) I
> took the last possible option:
> 6 Wiping and then re-installing Cygwin entire made no difference.
> 7 The problem does NOT occur on 1.5.
> 8 The problem does not occur when exiting a bash terminal: only rxvt.
>
> I am using XP Pro SP3 on FAT32. Attached: cygcheck -srv.
>
> Any insights/ suggestions/ similar experiences welcome.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fergus

I had a similar problem when I upgraded to 1.7.  I never found a 
solution and ended up switching to mintty instead of rxvt.


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