On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:00:14PM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: >I have just installed the last cygwin1-20051114.dll on a laptop running >W-XP. >Then the following catastrophe happened: >1- I opened a BASH-RXVT window and seemed OK. >2- I opened a BASH-CMD window and looked OK. >3- I opened a cygwin program of mine that uses a CMD window, > instead of appearing the expected window, hundreds of copies of the 2 >previously opened windows appeared. There was no way of stopping the >process. >At the end a screen appeared that alerted that WINDOWS was stopped because >critical system data was corrupted. After that there was no way of booting >again the machine, even with the recovery disc. It seems that I will have to >reformat the HDD. > >I urge you to immediately remove the cygwin1-2005114 snapshot.
I have been using this snapshot heavily all day without any problems. As I usually point out -- there is nothing magic about cygwin. There is no way that it should be able to do something like reformat your hard drive unless you were running from a privileged account. Even then, you'd have to try pretty hard to make it do something bad to your hard drive. I can't imagine how it could do something like what you describe. Unless someone else corroborates these problems, I don't think it makes any sense to remove the snapshot. cgf (now wondering if there will be a bunch of "Yes! Cygwin killed my parrot!" type responses) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/