Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to cygwin.overbored [AT] spamgourmet [DOT] com on 10/2/2005 7:36 PM: ^^ [It would be nice if you would set your mailer to provide a user name in the From: line; Mozilla Firefox is not very good at munging email addresses if it doesn't find a replacement name] I upgraded Cygwin, as advised, but it still didn't work. Since then I've been using cmd. However, today I discovered the solution: for some reason, I have to specify /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash instead of bash. This is strange, because bash exists nowhere else in my PATH (only /bin/bash and /usr/bin/bash), so rxvt couldn't have been executing something else Any clarification to this mystery would be appreciated. What is your PATH at the time you invoke rxvt? If /bin and /usr/bin are not in the path, then that would explain why it cannot find /bin/bash. Furthermore, while I was using cmd, if at any time during that cmd session I launched bash, then after exiting both bash and cmd, the terminal window would hang, and needs to be killed. This is both before and after the upgrade. Can you try the latest snapshot, to see if the problem still exists in the candidate for 1.5.19? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDQSnI84KuGfSFAYARAlUEAJsEV/RAXQSk3pIB5Hw9myHnp6iNoQCfeqh3 uDXYB7H7MXZyRBKRbrA+NF8= =vk4E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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: rxvt/bash immediately exits
I upgraded Cygwin, as advised, but it still didn't work. Since then I've been using cmd. However, today I discovered the solution: for some reason, I have to specify /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash instead of bash. This is strange, because bash exists nowhere else in my PATH (only /bin/bash and /usr/bin/bash), so rxvt couldn't have been executing something else Any clarification to this mystery would be appreciated. Furthermore, while I was using cmd, if at any time during that cmd session I launched bash, then after exiting both bash and cmd, the terminal window would hang, and needs to be killed. This is both before and after the upgrade. On 9/18/05, Reid Thompson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. I usually just use a shortcut to a script that runs rxvt -e bash --login -i. I can't think of any way other than using the -e argument to directly run bash in rxvt. Any workarounds would also be appreciated. may or may not resolve your issue. i invoke via rxvt -any_rxvt_options_that_i_want -e bash --rcfile /home/rthompso/.bashrc -- 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: rxvt/bash immediately exits
On 9/17/05, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1 seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However, running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance! Please help us help you: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Did you recently upgrade? Without details, no one here knows what you might have done that is the cause of the crash. No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. I usually just use a shortcut to a script that runs rxvt -e bash --login -i. I can't think of any way other than using the -e argument to directly run bash in rxvt. Any workarounds would also be appreciated. -- 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: rxvt/bash immediately exits
On 9/17/05, Eric Blake ericblake AT comcast DOT net wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Please help us help you: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Did you recently upgrade? Without details, no one here knows what you might have done that is the cause of the crash. You still didn't follow directions. The output of cygcheck is essential for us to help diagnose what you have installed. No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. You may want to consider upgrading cygwin. Anything older than the most recent two releases are pretty much unsupported on this list, because of the bugs that have been fixed in the meantime. -- Eric Blake -- 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: rxvt/bash immediately exits
I had a similar problem in the past and running rebaseall solved the problem. Be sure to read the documentation and stop all running cygwin background services before running it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1 seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However, running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance! -- 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: rxvt/bash immediately exits
No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. I usually just use a shortcut to a script that runs rxvt -e bash --login -i. I can't think of any way other than using the -e argument to directly run bash in rxvt. Any workarounds would also be appreciated. may or may not resolve your issue. i invoke via rxvt -any_rxvt_options_that_i_want -e bash --rcfile /home/rthompso/.bashrc -- 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/
rxvt/bash immediately exits
Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1 seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However, running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance! -- 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: rxvt/bash immediately exits
Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1 seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However, running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance! Please help us help you: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Did you recently upgrade? Without details, no one here knows what you might have done that is the cause of the crash. -- Eric Blake -- 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/
