Cygwin command line takes a long time to start

John Oliver joliver@john-oliver.net
Thu Jul 22 18:45:00 GMT 2010


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:30:37PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 7/22/2010 1:14 PM, John Oliver wrote:
> >After opening the Cygwin shell, I get the black box and a blinking
> >underscore for ten or fifteen seconds before the prompt appears.  How
> >would I go about figuring out what the delay is all about?
> 
> Are you running bash?  Have you installed the bash-completion package?

Yes, and no.

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