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Hi, My Cygwin setup seems to have... well, imploded, for want of a better word. I'm running Windows 8 on a fairly high-spec Sony laptop; I've had a minimal installation for a few months, and installed a large number of new packages yesterday. The first hint of trouble was my computer seeming to freeze when I was reviewing the screen of the Cygwin terminal. It might not have been as dramatic as it seemed to me: I'm blind, and use the JAWS for Windows screen reader (from www.freedomscientific.com); and what seemed to happen was that the JAWS keystrokes stopped working completely - which shouldn't happen unless there's a pretty impressive crash or lock-up. The odd thing was that regular keystrokes were causing beeps; but, unfortunately, I don't know what message may have been on the screen at the time. I had to forcibly reboot at that point; the same thing happened a couple more times. The last time, however, the lock-up didn't seem to be quite as complete - I was able to get out with alt+F4, rather than having to switch the machine off completely. After that, however, I wasn't able to restart Cygwin. When I tried immediately afterwards, Windows complained of a missing shortcut to mintty.exe when I used the hotkey I've assigned to my desktop Cygwin icon. After a reboot, the message had changed to "This app can't run on your PC". And that's where I'm now firmly stuck. I was able to run cygcheck -s -v -r from within the regular Windows CMD environment (rather than the Cygwin terminal, obviously), and I've attached the output. However, I'm not sure if it's run properly, as some of the things it claimed were missing (bash, gcc, sed) definitely shouldn't be missing. I found sed.exe manually in c:\Cygwin\bin, too, so this might be to do with the setting of the PATH environment variable when not in a Cygwin environment. Any help much appreciated! Thanks, and best wishes, Nikhil.
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cygcheck-output.txt
Description: Output of cygcheck -s -v -r, from within cmd.exe
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