I'm running into a problem with a previously-working installation of cygwin on Windows 2003 server.
I had installed a few extra packages, and updated all packages to the latest while attempting to set up Tinderbox. Now, I can no longer reliably open a cygwin bash prompt. The console window opens, but most of the time (about 80%), the prompt never appears. Using Sysinternal's Process Explorer shows additional child process (run as part of the default profile files) that haven't quite exited. Killing those processes causes the processing to continue and a prompt to appear. Another observation: the process shows up in the windows process lists (e.g. task manager and process explorer) and also in the output of ps. However, if I attempt to kill it from a bash prompt, kill reports "No such process". An alternate cygwin.bat that adds the -x parameter and runs bash under strace seems to work more reliably, indicating some sort of race condition. I have an strace log, but ~500k is probably too large to attach. In this attempt to run cygwin.bat, the last line to print is: "++ /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^_//'" (from line 83 of /etc/profile) Just to be clear, this happens at a random command somewhere in profile, or not at all. It also happens intermittently when running shell scripts from already-existing windows. Thinking that the problem might have been with the latest versions of cygwin, I tried to reinstall the original version (some packages reconstructed from an equivalently old version from fruitbat.org) that had been working for almost a year, but that did not help. I can't think of anything else to try to debug this problem. I apologize if this has already come up before, but I was unsuccessful in finding anything similar using google and searching the mailing lists. Thanks for any help in figuring out this problem! -Sam PS Sorry if this gets posted more than once - my mail appears to be getting silently dropped.
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