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 X-Originating-IP: [12.254.208.112] X-Originating-Email: [mgainty AT hotmail DOT com] From: "Martin Gainty" To: , "Luciano" References: Subject: Re: Cygwin driving me crazy Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:29:37 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Apr 2003 04:30:16.0464 (UTC) FILETIME=[37A80900:01C300AC] see bottom- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luciano" To: Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Cygwin driving me crazy > Hi. > I am a Cygwin newbie. I used it three years ago, dropped it and > resumed it now. This time I am enjoying it a lot, except for one > problem that is really driving me up the walls. > > It freezes at startup. In at least 5 or 6 out of every 10 times I > launch it (Bash or ZSH), an empty window is open forever, the shell > won't start. The only solution is to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, kill bash or > zsh, then kill Winoldap then try again. Sometimes I have to try again > as many as 4, 5, 6 times until it works. I run Wintop to see what the > heck is going on, it seems that if I call bash with the .bat file > provided, other programs are run before, like tr and hostname, and > sometimes one or tow of these freeze. I prefer to call bash.exe or > zsh.exe directly, but they still freeze. I felt tempted to blame > rxvt, but even if I don't use it and call bash or zsh directly, > they'll freeze. Not always, but very often. > > I blame Cygwin because although I didn't use Cygwin with that Unix > directory structure all these years, I've always had many GNU tools > in one single directory, and an old version of cygwin1.dll to > support them. I never had this problem until a few days ago, when I > installed almost all of Cygwin (minus graphics and devel), replacing > all the exes and cygwin1.dll with the latest versions. I used to call > bash.exe directly, it worked fine. Have you heard anything like that > before? Do you even suspect what could be wrong? I'm using Win 98 SE. > > Many thanks, > Luciano ES > Santos, SP - Brasil > > > -- > 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/ > > Luciano- winoldap is a hack put in to allow DOS to be called from Windows DLLs I could'nt find anything like it on my system.. My suggestion is to take winoldap.exe out of the path and re-run.. Hth, Martin -- 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/