On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Rao, Shrisha wrote: > On Tuesday, October 16, 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Shrisha, > > > > The Cygwin list does allow posts from non-subscribers, but puts them > > through spam filter checks, and sometimes does not let messages > > through. To find out how to be able to post without being flooded by > > e-mail, see <http://cygwin.com/ml/lists.html#rbl-sucks>. I'm > > directing the reply to the list, though. > > Thanks. I hope this message makes it.
It did. > > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Rao, Shrisha wrote: > > > > I cannot open a bash shell when the setup hangs, because Windows > > > reports a "Missing Shortcut" called cygwin.bat. Suggestions? > > > Thanks for your time. > > > You can always do a "cd c:\cygwin\bin" and ".\bash.exe --login -i" > > from a cmd.exe shell, which would be equivalent to the standard > > cygwin.bat. The above suggested commands can then be run from that > > shell. > > I did that and got a bash shell, thanks much. > > 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". > > Regards, > Shrisha Rao 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. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
