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Re: WIN2K service pack 2 kills BASH
- To: <Jakob dot Heinemann at writeme dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: WIN2K service pack 2 kills BASH
- From: "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 08:14:58 -0700
- References: <3B234F9C.7C6F2684@telia.com>
cygwin hasn't had any difficulties with SP2 on my boxes, not even on
this ancient one from the W95 days. I've noticed some drivers are not
supported in SP2; you can always back it off if you haven't trashed the
backup.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jakob Heinemann" <013-143517@telia.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 3:44 AM
Subject: WIN2K service pack 2 kills BASH
> Hello
>
> I've been running cygwin b20 for ages and basically, what I want from
it
> is its bash shell and the gnu readline command interface. Yesterday I
> installed the Service pack 2 for win2k on my machine, and suddenly the
> bash.exe is nolonger able to take keyboard input.
>
> So I thought, I'll need to upgrade to latest Cygwin, and downloaded
and
> installed 1.3.2 release, but the SAME THING happens, starting the bash
> just beeps.
> I get the prompt
> bash-2.05$
> pushing the keyboar just produces beeps and then I have to kill the
> window.
>
> Does anybody have a solution to this? (Besides no-use-complaining to
> Microsoft)
>
> Thanks
> /Jakob
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