Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

>From message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00534.html: > Dave, I think you missed this: > >>sciguy wrote: >>>I am networked to a Linux machine, so I moved the tar file >>>cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 over to the Linux machine, created a dummy >>>cygwin directory to hold the file, and un-

snapshots: first resort, or last resort?

In http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00434.html, Brian said "using the latest snapshot should always be the first thing you try when encountering a problem before reporting it to the list." However, the instructions for installing snapshots at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

I got cygwin working once again on my problem machine. (Hooray!) The problem was that the snapshot tar file, cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2, had cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin but failed to replace the old cygwin1.dll in /bin. I copied over the new cygwin1.dll into /bin, and things are working nicely onc

so it does work, sometimes

Well maybe I can slip this message in. The shortened form of my blocked message is that I installed the latest snapshot on my PC but it did not fix the "bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU" problem. Any other suggestions? I'm happy to give more information concerning exactly what I did. That's

does this mail list work?

I tried posting the same message twice last night, from this Comcast address, and once this afternoon from my Yahoo address. The message is not showing up on the list. What gives? -- Joe -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. Unfortunately, it did not help the problem at all. I am not 100% sure what you meant by "try a snapshot," but I am guessing that you meant simply to reinstall cygwin. So I did that, again. Last night I renamed the old cygwin directory from C:\cygwin to C:\cygwi

bash and CSRSS consuming 100% of CPU

This problem has been noted before by someone else, http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg37532.html but I followed the threads and can find no resolution. When I fire-up a cygwin bash window, everything is fine for a few minutes. Then the CPU utilization on my system suddenly jumps t