Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/6/2014 3:08 AM, Warren Young wrote: On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Kal Sze wrote: A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened a

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nikhil Nair! > One thing I should, perhaps, mention: I'd also been using Cygwin Ports, and > it looks like I'd got more recent versions of some packages by adding that > repository. > So, any further hints would be most welcome... Using Ports is not a problem per se, but NOT using por

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 06/08/2014 11:50, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Nikhil Nair! My Cygwin setup seems to have... well, imploded, for want of a better word. Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path Please make sure you only have one installation of Cygwin, or remove any stray elements from your

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Kal Sze wrote: > On 6 August 2014 17:55, Warren Young wrote: >> >> On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Nikhil Nair wrote: >> >>> >> >> The output shows that a number of key packages are incomplete, > > By the way, could that be hint of virus activity or hard disk dying?

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 06/08/2014 11:59, Kal Sze wrote: On 6 August 2014 17:55, Warren Young wrote: On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Nikhil Nair wrote: The output shows that a number of key packages are incomplete, meaning that files they own no longer exist on your system. It is not that c:\cygwin is missing,

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nikhil Nair! > My Cygwin setup seems to have... well, imploded, for want of a better > word. Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path Please make sure you only have one installation of Cygwin, or remove any stray elements from your path that may compromise the situation,

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Kal Sze
On 6 August 2014 17:55, Warren Young wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Nikhil Nair wrote: > > > > > The output shows that a number of key packages are incomplete, meaning that > files they own no longer exist on your system. It is not that c:\cygwin is > missing, but that a small but criti

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Nikhil Nair wrote: > The output shows that a number of key packages are incomplete, meaning that files they own no longer exist on your system. It is not that c:\cygwin is missing, but that a small but critical subset of key Cygwin files are missing. Most importa