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Re: bash shell interface broken after install on Vista


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Barry Gold wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Commands which exit silently are usually caused by missing DLLs.
"cygcheck /bin/ls.exe" would tell you which DLL was missing and you could
install the missing packages.

I tried that. But cygcheck doesn't work either, for the same reason.

'cygcheck' is a Win32 app which doesn't rely on 'cygwin1.dll' or any of Cygwin's added features. If it won't work, then something in your system is inhibiting it. Perhaps you have <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>?


The problem seems to be that it can't run under the shell, because the shell is broken.


I ran it in a command window.

C:\cygwin\bin>cygcheck ./ls.exe
.\ls.exe
 .\cygwin1.dll
   C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
     C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
     C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
     C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
       C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll
 .\cygintl-8.dll
   .\cygiconv-2.dll

All of those exist.

My wife went searching and found a recommendation to install cygwin for "myself only" instead of "all users', on VIsta, but I haven't been offered this option since my first install (if ever).

I hate Vista. And I'm not too fond of HP either, right now.

But I should note that I had no problems with cygwin on my previous (Win2K) machine, which also ran NAV and lots of other potentially dodgy apps.

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