X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RX,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: often does not successfully exit rxvt and close it down Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:55:08 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4BB30CC3 DOT 1060002 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <4BB30CC3.1060002@bonhard.uklinux.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 2010-03-31 04:50, Fergus wrote: > >> fails to close down an rxvt terminal window > >> and I am left with the terminal window showing > >> $ exit > >> and not shutting down. > > > The incidence of failures is today about 80%. > > Anybody else? > > 1 Now indistinguishably close to 100% but not actually guaranteed. > 2 Still unable to identify any pattern or common items in the task > history in any session where fails to exit. > 3 X-ing the rxvt terminal window does not close it: I have to use "End > Task" in Windows Task Manager. > 4 Re-installing rxvt made no difference. > 5 Reverting to [prev] made no difference. > Uncertain whether a recent rebaseall might have triggered the problem > (the only high-level platform-related task I have recently undertaken) I > took the last possible option: > 6 Wiping and then re-installing Cygwin entire made no difference. > 7 The problem does NOT occur on 1.5. > 8 The problem does not occur when exiting a bash terminal: only rxvt. > > I am using XP Pro SP3 on FAT32. Attached: cygcheck -srv. > > Any insights/ suggestions/ similar experiences welcome. > > Thank you. > > Fergus I had a similar problem when I upgraded to 1.7. I never found a solution and ended up switching to mintty instead of rxvt. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple