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 ($? == 1) >> dirs >> if...then.fi >> test > >That I can address: they are shell builtins. That is, they are >recognized by bash and processed by the bash program itself without >forking or otherwise involving another process. I find it hard to >imagine that anything in bash could work if those commands didn't. > >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 software runs four times a day to weed out bad mirrors. It's very unlikely that a new installation would have problems that were due to a mirror. It is possible that using an old mirror that is no longer on the list would cause problems but that wouldn't be the case with a new installation. 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. cgf -- 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/
