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Subject: RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:12:03 -0500
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On October 21, 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Rao, Shrisha wrote:

> > However, strangely, the "kill -9 ..." sequence you suggested itself
> > hangs within this bash shell.  (Actually, when the shell comes up it
> > does not know the right PATH, but this was easily fixed with
> > PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH".)
> >
> > Some commands work within the shell and some don't; e.g., tar and
bzip2
> > work separately but tar -xjf doesn't (no error, just hangs).
Likewise,
> > latex hangs saying "kpathsea: running mktexfmt latexfmt".


> It was shown to be a bash bug (pipes left open on spawn, see
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html>).  A new
bash-2.05b-16
> should be on some mirrors already.

It is, and I downloaded and installed it, but the problems continue 
(kill -9 ... and latex still hang).  

However, bash now has a default PATH including /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin,
and /bin.

Regards,

Shrisha Rao

> 	Igor


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