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Re: Can't run any executable from cygwin/bin


Hello, Ivan :)

What you mean "ntohing runs" ? Does any of the executables,
you've tried to run, print an error message ? What does it
say ?

Ivan Dobrianov wrote:
> 
> It's a strange problem: there was a Windows Whistler Server machine (from what I
> understand this is a beta version of the Windows XP Server OS) which was running
> cygwin-1.3.N (I forgot exactly, but N=1, 2, or 3).
> 
> Then the OS was upgraded to the next beta version (I am told that the XP Server
> has not been released yet). After that upgrade Cygwin and just about anything in
> the /bin directory just stopped working: bash hangs indefinitely (or very long,
> w.o. doing anything), cygcheck exits right away w.o. printing anything, tcsh
> crashes, ls hangs long before not doing anything, etc ....
> 
> I wiped out the all cygwin reg keys, wiped the whole installation and installed
> 1.3.4 from scratch (yes, I know that 1.3.5 is the most recent one, but the inst
> source I used has been used to install on a bunch of XP and 2000 machines around
> and works there just fine). Same thing - nothing runs!

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