Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3CB1C01B.1000506@alcatel.it> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:06:51 +0200 From: Danilo Turina User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: How I solved: "When I telnet to my machine I get 'bash.exe: The Application can't be initialized correctly (0x0000022)'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hope this can help someone. The scenario ------------ WinNT4.0SP6a, Cygwin 13.3.20 up to date for almost all packages obtainable by setup.exe (with the exception of Ghostscript, Dejagnu, links, postgresql, tetex and all of the *-devel packages). Machine belongs to domain MYDOMAIN and I use MYDOMAIN\MYUSER to log to the machine. MYUSER has been added to the MYMACHINE\Administrators group. Cygwin was installed using MYMACHINE\administrator (even if since 2 or 3 months I update it through MYUSER). Inetd correctly installed as package, installed as service and started (I followed the instructions in /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README). The problem ----------- When I try to telnet to MYMACHINE from another machine (or from itself), all works correctly until I insert username and password, then, if username and/or password is wrong, I must reinsert them (as usual), but if username and password are right I see motd and then (on MYMACHINE) a dialog with this message (or a very similar one) is displayed "bash.exe: The Application can't be initialized correctly (0x0000022)". A workaround ------------ Trying to change bash.exe with another application (I tried sh.exe, fortune and others) will not work. Therefore is not a bash problem. It's very probable that: * it's not an inetd problem: the problem arises after inetd has done its job; * it's not a login/logind problem: i tried also with rsh, rexec and rlogin but none of them succeeded. Some time ago, all worked so I guess that some component I upgraded is causing the problem. Unfortunately I rarely telnet to my machine, instead I use it as an X Server (XFree 4.2.0), so I can't determine when this happened. Proceeding with trials and errors I discovered that downgrading from Cygwin 1.3.10-1 to Cygwin 1.3.9-1, will make the whole thing work. So for me, at least at the moment, this can be a solution. The REAL solution ----------------- When trying to solve this problem I messed with mkpasswd and mkgroup, as a result this morning I was not able to start XFree anymore, in that ssh-agent claimed that it can't start because of some sort or permission problem. Then I realized that even if I was logging to my machine as MYDOMAIN\MYUSER when I opened a local shell I was taken into MYMACHINE\administrator home (i.e. /home/administrator) (!!!). Nevertheless I was not MYMACHINE\administrator, infact when I created files they belonged to MYDOMAIN\MYUSER. This was probably the problem. I followed these steps: * regeneration of /etc/passwd and /etc/group with mkpasswd and mkgroup only for local users/groups; * insertion of MYDOMAIN\MYUSER into /etc/passwd with the command: mkpasswd -u MYUSER -d MYDOMAN >> /etc/passwd (this because MYDOMAIN contains thousands of users and generation a /etc/passwd file with all those users shouldn't be very useful for me); * update to Cygwin 1.3.10-1; * reboot (I don't know if this is needed). After doing so, ssh-agent works again and now (eureka!) telnet does. Conclusion ---------- Ad said by many people of the Cygwin list, it was a permission problem. ------------------------------------- Danilo Turina Alcatel Optics TND Network Management Rieti (Italy) - Phone: +39 746 600332 ------------------------------------- 11 mesi 29 giorni 2 ore 52 minuti 41 secondi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/