COMSPEC environment variable missing

2005-12-28 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Hi. I'm using the 20051227-snapshot of cygwin1.dll. This is my Windows 98SE environment as told by the 'set' command: TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP PROMPT=$p$g winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM DIRCMD=/o:gne windir=C

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2005-12-28 Thread Ingo Brueckl
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005, Sean Gugler wrote: > Score! Snapshot 20050905 did the trick. Unfortunately, there is still a crash with: #include #include #include #include int cygwinsystem (const char *cmd) { pid_t pid; int rc; static int result; if (!(pid = fork()))

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-01 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Christopher Faylor writes: > as would some indication of what you mean by "crash", i.e., maybe > even running this under gdb to find out precisely where the "crash" is > happening. This dialog appears: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Confirming the d

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-01 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Christopher Faylor writes: > cygcheck output would help. cygcheck -s crashes itself (but only with option -s, other options work): "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Details>>: CYGCHECK caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7b992.

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-03 Thread Ingo Brueckl
In the meantime I could reproduce the bug (which was described the first time in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00058.html and then in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01038.html) on a Windows 98SE PC which never had anything to do with cygwin before and where I only copied th

Re: COMSPEC environment variable missing

2006-01-03 Thread Ingo Brueckl
An observation which should help. See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01037.html for the problem. As said, COMSPEC is set: TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP PROMPT=$p$g winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM DIRCMD=/

Re: Does "^G" work on Windows 9x/Me?

2006-01-03 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Christopher Faylor writes: > Can anyone confirm if this actually plays a beep? Windows 98SE here. Unfortunately, since I have the soundcard, my console beep has become a kind of crackle, but I can confirm that it crackles with echo -e "\007" as well as with MessageBeep (-1) using the program

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-03 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Christopher Faylor wrote: > The above would indicate that you don't actually have cygwin installed > since there is nothing in your mount table and no packages listed. So, > this doesn't really help. It was from the cygwin-free W98 machine. Here is the output from the PC with cygwin installed (bu

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-04 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Larry Hall wrote: > Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path ^ Yikes! So what shall I do? There is one in cygwin\bin (which was the current directory at this time) and a copy in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM for my cygwin programs to run

Re: COMSPEC environment variable missing

2006-01-05 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Just tried the 20060104 snapshot. Bug is fixed. Thanks a lot. Ingo -- 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/

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-09 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Christopher Faylor writes: > maybe even running this under gdb to find out precisely where the "crash" > is happening Is there a "How track down bugs with gdb HOWTO for dummies"? I'd like to help, but don't have experience with gdb. Ingo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

2006-01-11 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Just tried the 20060110 snapshot, the bug is fixed. Thanks a lot (, Christopher?)! Ingo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwi