cygwin 1.5.6-1: CTRL-C freezes bash

Brandon Nelson Brandon.Nelson@cnib.ca
Fri Jan 30 16:44:00 GMT 2004


> > I've looked all over for an answer to this problem, but 
> haven't seen any
> > reference to it in such a basic form.
> >
> > Pressing CTRL-C in bash freezes the shell. I get this error 
> (examples of
> > varying numbers in curly brackets):
> >
> >         {10, 8} [main] bash {1312} sig_send: wait for 
> sig_complete event failed, signal {-33, 2}, rc 258, Win32 error {2, 3}
> >
> > Sometimes followed by:
> >
> >         Terminate batch job (Y/N)?
> >
> > I've tried the latest snapshot, in addition to the current 
> installer,
> > and still encounter this problem. Below is my cygcheck -svr 
> output. Has
> > anyone else seen this?
> >
> > Brandon
> 
> I believe <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg01336.html> 
> sums it up
> pretty nicely.  BTW, your cygcheck output below does not show 
> you using
> the latest snapshot.  See <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> for 
> instructions
> on installing and using snapshots.
> 	Igor
> P.S. Next time, please attach the cygcheck output as an 
> uncompressed text
> *attachment*, as per <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.> 


Thanks for the help Igor. I wonder if perhaps 1.5.6-1 shouldn't be offered right off the home page, or whether a disclaimer should be prominent. As a release announced in the news section, it has the appearance of a stable release.

Brandon



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