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 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:18:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP) Message-ID: <20040803201806.GA24082@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:00:27PM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote: >I'm running 4NT (current version) on a Windows XP system. Recently I >got a spyware program on my machine which messed some things up. I >removed the spyware, but I find that I cannot run any Cygwin utilities >from the 4NT prompt anymore. When I run a program (such as cat, strace, >gcc, make, etc), I just immediately get a command prompt back. I tried >completely removing both 4NT and Cygwin, including registry entries and >all copies of cyg*.dll, rebooting, and reinstalling both packages, but >the problem is unchanged. > >The utilities run fine from an regular CMD.EXE console. Jpsoft is >unwilling to provide any assistance with this, though I'm a registered >user. Also, most (if not all) other console programs work, only the >Cygwin utilities seem to have a problem. > >Can anyone here provide any ideas on what I can do to find out why the >Cygwin utilities are terminating immediately?? I can't even run strace, >since it also terminates immediately with no messages!! This is very >frustrating!! strace isn't a cygwin application so something is really strange here. Can you run cygcheck.exe? That's not a cygwin app either. Maybe one of the utilities at the http://sysinternals.com/ site will help. Otherwise, it sounds a little like you have more than one copy of the DLL on your system. The system search utility would confirm or deny that fact. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/