Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Christopher Faylor wrote: Did you try cygcheck ./bash.exe ? Good point. C:\cygwin\bin>cygcheck ./bash.exe .\bash.exe .\cygwin1.dll C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll C:\Win

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 08:24:00PM -0700, Barry Gold wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Barry Gold wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Barry Gold wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Barry Gold wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could install the missing packages. I tried that. But cygcheck d

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Tim McDaniel wrote: > The original problem report mentioned it hanging during the download > or install, I forget which. I wondered whether it might have been > some odd networking problem with that particular mirror. (I've had > odd networking problems in the past, even in Linux.) It's also an

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Barry Gold wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could install the missing packages. I tried that. But cygcheck doesn't work either,

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:36:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you just installed Cygwin and didn't configure it much, have you considered just uninstalling and reinstalling from a new mirror? The mirror checking softw

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Barry Gold wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: 'cygcheck' is a Win32 app which doesn't rely on 'cygwin1.dll' or any of Cygwin's added features. If it won't work, then something in your system is inhibiting it. Perhaps you have ? Wonderful. Norton AV is on t

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: 'cygcheck' is a Win32 app which doesn't rely on 'cygwin1.dll' or any of Cygwin's added features. If it won't work, then something in your system is inhibiting it. Perhaps you have ? Wonderful. Norton AV is on the BLODA. Well...

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

On 08/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: That gain suggests BLODA. And 00ash.sh should come before 00bash.sh. again -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd.

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Barry Gold wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Barry Gold wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could install the missing packages. I tried that. But cygcheck d

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Barry Gold wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Barry Gold wrote: 'cygcheck' is a Win32 app which doesn't rely on 'cygwin1.dll' or any of Cygwin's added features. If it won't work, then something in your system is inhibiting it. Perhaps you have ? I have:

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Barry Gold wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could install the missing packages. I tried that. But cygcheck doesn't work either,

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Barry Gold wrote: 'cygcheck' is a Win32 app which doesn't rely on 'cygwin1.dll' or any of Cygwin's added features. If it won't work, then something in your system is inhibiting it. Perhaps you have ? I have: 1. Firefox 2. Thun

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Barry Gold wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could install the missing packages. I tried that. But cygcheck doesn't work either, for the same reason. 'cygch

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

Christopher Faylor wrote: Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs. "cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could install the missing packages. I tried that. But cygcheck doesn't work either, for the same reason. This is after a third down

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:36:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Barry Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1. Nearly all commands appear to complete without doing anything. >> This includes "ls", "cat", "vi". >> The following commands work properly: >> echo >> true >> false

Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Barry Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Nearly all commands appear to complete without doing anything. > This includes "ls", "cat", "vi". > The following commands work properly: > echo > true > false ($? == 1) > dirs > if...then.fi > test That I can address: they are sh

bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

I installed cygwin on my new HP Pavilion machine running (ecch!) Vista. I added a few items to the default install parameters (notably vim and file), then started my download. It got "stuck" about 80% through -- sat at 80% for over an hour. I cancelled the install, and tried again with a diff