Cygwin driving me crazy

[Martin Gainty]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luciano" <lucianoav@gmx.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Cygwin driving me crazy


> Hi.
> I am a Cygwin newbie. I used it three years ago, dropped it and 
> resumed it now. This time I am enjoying it a lot, except for one 
> problem that is really driving me up the walls.
> 
> It freezes at startup. In at least 5 or 6 out of every 10 times I 
> launch it (Bash or ZSH), an empty window is open forever, the shell 
> won't start. The only solution is to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, kill bash or 
> zsh, then kill Winoldap then try again. Sometimes I have to try again 
> as many as 4, 5, 6 times until it works. I run Wintop to see what the 
> heck is going on, it seems that if I call bash with the .bat file 
> provided, other programs are run before, like tr and hostname, and 
> sometimes one or tow of these freeze. I prefer to call bash.exe or 
> zsh.exe directly, but they still freeze. I felt tempted to blame 
> rxvt, but even if I don't use it and call bash or zsh directly, 
> they'll freeze. Not always, but very often.
> 
> I blame Cygwin because although I didn't use Cygwin with that Unix 
> directory structure all these years, I've always had many GNU tools 
> in one single directory, and an old version of cygwin1.dll to 
> support them. I never had this problem until a few days ago, when I 
> installed almost all of Cygwin (minus graphics and devel), replacing 
> all the exes and cygwin1.dll with the latest versions. I used to call 
> bash.exe directly, it worked fine. Have you heard anything like that 
> before? Do you even suspect what could be wrong? I'm using Win 98 SE.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Luciano ES
> Santos, SP - Brasil
> 
> 
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Luciano-
winoldap is a hack put in to allow DOS to be called from Windows DLLs
I could'nt find anything like it on my system..
My suggestion is to take winoldap.exe out of the path and re-run..

Hth,
Martin

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