Stephen Booth wrote: > Hi, > > Today one of my collegues tried installing Cygwin 1.3.5 and CYGWIN/XFree86 on to > a Compaq Deskpro EN 733MHz running Microsoft Windows XP RC2. I have previously > installed this onto Windows 2000 with no problems. > > Whilst the install seemed to work fine we ran into a couple of problems, i was > hoping that someone might be able to point us in the direction of where best to > investigate to resolve it.
There's a buglet in setup.exe that causes new installs to (probably) install the wrong (old) version of packages on new installs. Re-run setup and it will correctly upgrade those packages to the current (newer) versions. > Firstly we found that sometimes programs seem to die before they start, that is > after hitting return at the end of the command line we are returned straight to > the command prompt without any error messages or other visual indications. This > was noted initially with telnet and vi and seemed to resolve it self with no > indication of how (it wasn't working then suddenly it was) and was seen both at > the command line and under X-Windows. Are you running in a bash shell, or are you trying to run cygwin programs directly from command.com/cmd.exe (or double-click from explorer? THAT won't work...) > Secondly X-Windows frequently dies when an X application exits or is killed. I > have posted separately to the CYGWIN/XFree86 list about this and include it here > for information only. Wong list for X related questions. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But make sure non-X stuff works first. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/