bash shell interface broken after install on Vista

[Tim McDaniel]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:36:49PM -0500, tmcd@panix.com wrote:
>> Since you just installed Cygwin and didn't configure it much, have you
>> considered just uninstalling and reinstalling from a new mirror?
>
> The mirror checking software runs four times a day to weed out bad
> mirrors.  It's very unlikely that a new installation would have
> problems that were due to a mirror.

The original problem report mentioned it hanging during the download
or install, I forget which.  I wondered whether it might have been
some odd networking problem with that particular mirror.  (I've had
odd networking problems in the past, even in Linux.)  It's also an
obvious fix technique, if it works, but he later said it didn't.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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