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 -- 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/
