Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <90F3E2EF5221D411AAF5006008A8451601AAE980@server.pixsci.com> From: Don Bowman To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:55:40 -0500 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) >I just upgraded my cygwin installation from 1.0 to the latest cygwin DLLs >(cygwin-1.1.5-4) and now almost every utililty (ls,cat,etc) prints out >"couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" when it starts. tcsh prints the >error and exits. I backed out to cygwin-1.1.4 and got the same problem. I >am running all of these apps remotely in a telnet window connected a windows >2000 telnet server (the default one that comes with win2k) on a remote >machine, this worked fine until I upgraded cygwin. The apps appear to run >OK when run in a normal window on the local machine. >Thanks for any help, >chris I too have just run into this. I have a new windows 2000 system, nothing installed on it but the os. I installed cygwin 1.1.6 from the web site installer. When invoked via telnet, bash quits with the same "couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" message. My other windows2000 box with the same setup but cygwin1.dll of ts=1998/12/3 23:39 works well with the telnet server. The output of the cygcheck for this machine is below. Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Dec 18 19:45:45 2000 WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 1 Path: /bin /usr/bin //c/Programs/Rational/ClearCase/bin SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT PWD = `/home/administrator' USER = `administrator' MAKE_MODE = `unix' HOME = `/home/administrator' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `2' PROMPT = `$P$G' LOGONSERVER = `\\RETORT' OS2LIBPATH = `C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;' COMSPEC = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' !C: = `C:\programs\cygwin\bin' SYSTEMDRIVE = `C:' HOSTNAME = `FIRMTST' PROCESSOR_REVISION = `0803' HISTFILESIZE = `500' PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' COMPUTERNAME = `FIRMTST' CRFILES = `/home/administrator/cr' WINDIR = `C:\WINNT' USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\don' WIND_HOST_TYPE = `x86-win32' PS1 = `$ ' CDRFILES = `/home/administrator/cdr' PROGRAMFILES = `C:\programs' MACHTYPE = `i686-pc-cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel' OS = `Windows_NT' OLDPWD = `/usr/bin' LINES = `25' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86' TEMP = `/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/don/LOCALS~1/Temp' EDITOR = `c:/Programs/cygwin/bin/vi.exe' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `6' SYSTEMROOT = `C:\WINNT' TMP = `C:/Programs/cygwin/tmp' HOMEDRIVE = `c:' CRVIEWROOT = `//m/' ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' SHLVL = `1' COLUMNS = `80' APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\don\Application Data' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files' HOMEPATH = `\users\don' USERDOMAIN = `NTPIXSCI' USERNAME = `don' SHELL = `/bin/sh.exe' HOSTTYPE = `i686' CPU = `R4000' IGNOREEOF = `1' OSTYPE = `cygwin' TERM = `cygwin' cdr = `() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then for i in $CDRFILES/*; do printf `basename $i`\\t\\c; cat $i; done; else if [ "$1" = "+" ]; then if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "usage: cdr + name"; else echo "$PWD" >$CDRFILES/$2; fi; else if [ "$1" = "-" ]; then if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "usage: cdr - name"; else if [ -f $CDRFILES/$2 ]; then rm $CDRFILES/$2; else echo "no alias for $2"; fi; fi; else if [ -n "$1" ]; then if [ -f $CDRFILES/$1 ]; then f=$(cat $CDRFILES/$1); echo $f; cd $f; else echo "no alias for $1"; fi; fi; fi; fi; fi }' cr = `() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then for i in $CRFILES/*; do printf `basename $i`\\t; cat $i; done; else if [ "$1" = "+" ]; then if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "usage: cdr + name"; else relpath=$( echo $PWD | awk -F/ -v viewroot="$CRVIEWROOT" ' { t=length(viewroot)+1; viewstr=substr($0, t, length($0)-t+1); viewname=substr(viewstr, 0, index(viewstr, "/")); relStart=t+length(viewname); relLength=length($0) - relStart + 1; if( length(viewname)==0 ) printf( "noview" ) else printf( "%s", substr($0, relStart, relLength) ); } '); if [ $relpath = "noview" ]; then echo "Not currently in a view"; else echo $2: $relpath; echo $relpath >$CRFILES/$2; fi; fi; else if [ "$1" = "-" ]; then if [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "usage: cdr - name"; else if [ -f $CRFILES/$2 ]; then rm $CRFILES/$2; else echo "no alias for $2"; fi; fi; else if [ -n "$1" ]; then if [ -f $CRFILES/$1 ]; then f=$(cat $CRFILES/$1); abspath=$( echo $PWD/ | awk -F/ -v relpath="$f" -v viewroot="$CRVIEWROOT" ' { t=length(viewroot)+1; viewstr=substr($0, t, length($0)-t+1); viewname=substr(viewstr, 0, index(viewstr, "/")); if( length(viewname)==0 ) printf( "noview" ) else printf( "%s%s%s", viewroot, viewname, relpath ); } '); if [ $abspath = "noview" ]; then echo "Not currently in a view"; else echo $abspath; cd $abspath; fi; else echo "no alias for $1"; fi; fi; fi; fi; fi }' wb = `() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "Needs view name"; return; fi; if [ ! -d //m/$1 ]; then echo "$1 is not a view name"; return; fi; export WIND_PATH=//m/$1/Tornado/host/x86-win32/bin; export WIND_BASE=//m/$1/Tornado; export PATH="$PATH":$WIND_PATH }' _ = `/bin/cygcheck' TZ = `EST5EDT4,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = `/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x00000022 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00 (default) = `C:' unix = `/' fbinary = 0x00000000 fsilent = 0x00000000 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrd er\Start Menu\Programs\Cygnus Solutions (default) = (unsupported type) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = `C:/Programs/cygwin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = `C:/Programs/cygwin/bin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = `C:/Programs/cygwin/lib' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\01 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\02 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\03 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\04 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\05 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\06 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\07 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\08 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\09 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0A HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0B HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0C HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0D HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0E HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0F HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\10 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\11 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\12 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\13 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\14 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\15 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\16 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\17 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\18 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\19 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1A HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1B HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1C HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1D HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\GNUPro HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\GNUPro\i586-cygwin32 a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 8675Mb 24% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/A N/A m: net MVFS 1000Mb 50% CP CS CCase C:\Programs\cygwin\bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\Programs\cygwin\lib /usr/lib system binmode C:\Programs\cygwin / system binmode Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\sh.exe 56k 2000/12/03 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygbz21.0.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/20 18:53 83k 2000/11/25 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygform5.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 0:42 18k 2000/10/23 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyggdbm.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 22:26 17k 2000/11/30 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cyghistory4.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/29 21:28 14k 2000/10/23 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygintl.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/23 15:02 81k 2000/12/05 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygitcl30.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:43 35k 2000/12/05 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygitk30.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:43 45k 2000/10/22 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygjbig1.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 19:06 119k 2000/10/23 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygjpeg6b.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 20:58 53k 2000/11/25 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygmenu5.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 0:42 300k 2000/11/25 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygncurses5.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 0:40 35k 2000/11/25 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpanel5.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 0:41 162k 2000/10/23 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpng2.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 20:40 108k 2000/11/30 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygreadline4.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/29 21:28 390k 2000/12/05 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygtcl80.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:39 5k 2000/12/05 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 10k 2000/12/05 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygtclreg80.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:39 243k 2000/10/23 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygtiff3.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 21:14 623k 2000/12/05 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygtk80.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/25 20:43 41k 2000/11/20 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygXpm-noX4.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/19 21:41 45k 2000/11/20 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygXpm-X4.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/19 21:45 49k 2000/10/23 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygz.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/10/22 20:22 609k 2000/11/22 C:\Programs\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2000/11/21 21:00 Cygwin DLL version info: dll major: 1001 dll minor: 6 dll epoch: 19 dll bad signal mask: 19005 dll old termios: 5 dll malloc env: 28 api major: 0 api minor: 30 shared data: 3 dll identifier: cygwin1 mount registry: 2 cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions cygwin registry name: Cygwin program options name: Program Options cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix cygdrive default prefix: build date: Tue Nov 21 21:00:16 EST 2000 shared id: cygwin1S3 Use -h to see help about each section begin 600 Don Bowman (E-mail).vcf ` end -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? 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