system lags and dysfunctional after cygwin update

[Ben Altman]

On 5/12/2016 10:07 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Ben Altman!
>
>> On 5/12/2016 10:44 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 12/05/2016 16:35, Ben Altman wrote:
>>>
>>>   Another thing that happens is that
>>>> Internet Explorer stops working - it loads unresponsive and then
>>>> crashes. Chrome loads but won't reach any website. Firefox works but
>>>> will become unresponsive frequently. Rebooting fixes the issue until I
>>>> do something in one of my scripts that triggers it again.
>>> These can not be an effect of cygwin.
>>> Something else cripped your system.
>> That is the puzzling thing. It only happens when I am running cygwin or
>> babun
> babun is a repackaged Cygwin rip-off.
> Delete it and install Cygwin proper.

I don't have any specific need for Babun beyond it having a working mutt 
while my Cygwin installation does not. Perhaps reinstalling Cygwin from 
scratch again would be the easiest remedy.

Ben

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