Arbitrary commands hanging in bash?

[Brian.P.Kasper@notes.aero.org]

Hello.

With alarming frequency, bash will hang after I type a command
and hit <enter>.  The problem is intermittant, but if it occurs,
all I can do is kill that window and open a new bash session.  It
happens for any command, but appears random and intermittant.

I'm using the latest cygwin install (I downloaded the latest setup.exe,
ran it and downloaded anything that had changed from my original install,
and then re-ran setup to "install from the current directory").

I've attached the output of cygcheck -s -v -r below, and here's the output
of uname -a:

CYGWIN_NT-4.0 ZUUL 1.1.4(0.26/3/2) 2000-08-03 20:53 i686 unknown

I didn't see anything obviously wrong in the cygcheck output, but
I'm not a cygwin hacker, so it's quite possible I missed something.

I'm starting bash using the 'Cygwin' icon created by my original
install, which is a shortcut to c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat.  I'm using
the GNU make distributed with cygwin to control C and C++ module
compilation and linking with Microsoft Visual C++; is it possible
that there's some weird console interaction between native win32
commands and cygwin commands?

Is there a chance that someone else has seen this problem?  I searched
the mailing list archive for "bash hang" and didn't find anything
that matched this problem.  I'd be willing to try installing a recent
snapshot, if someone could either describe how to do so or point me
at a reference which does.

I'm also not sure from where I would download the tar.gz file for the
snapshot.  I'm doing C/C++/X Windows development with Cygwin, so I'd
need the entire snapshot, not just the latest cygwin1.dll.

I appreciate any help anyone can offer.  Sorry if any of this is a FAQ,
but I didn't see any references in the archives.

-Brian

Output of cygcheck -s -v -r:

(See attached file: cygcheck.txt)
Text - character set unknown
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