Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread Seb.Th
Le 14/05/2013 18:08, Nate Bargmann wrote : I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that the

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread marco atzeri
Il 5/20/2013 3:39 PM, Seb.Th ha scritto: Le 14/05/2013 18:08, Nate Bargmann wrote : I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread Seb.Th
Le 20/05/2013 16:25, marco atzeri wrote : The only main differences I noticed between my system and Nate's one are: Windows Vista Home Premium Ver 6.0 Build 6002 Service Pack 2 vs Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Mine is : Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/20/2013 11:02 AM, Seb.Th wrote: - a stream line PATH (Please excuse-me, I don't undertand what it is.) Marco is suggesting that you try trimming your PATH down to the bare minimum and see if that helps. -- Larry _ A:

Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that the sub-shell started by Midnight Commander is

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread marco atzeri
Il 5/14/2013 6:08 PM, Nate Bargmann ha scritto: I'm relatively new to Cygwin and am using it to enhance portability of a software package I help maintain. To be sure that a bug I was hitting in my compilation was in my software package I updated Cygwin last week and since then I have found that

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 14 May 11:52 -0500, marco atzeri wrote: Hi Nate, set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disabled the hint bar, but I always see the $ of bar command. Hi Marco. Using Windows Explorer I deleted the .cache, .config, and .local directories (only mc had anything stored there) and started mc.

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread marco atzeri
Il 5/14/2013 8:37 PM, Nate Bargmann ha scritto: * On 2013 14 May 11:52 -0500, marco atzeri wrote: Hi Nate, set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disabled the hint bar, but I always see the $ of bar command. Hi Marco. Using Windows Explorer I deleted the .cache, .config, and .local directories

Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

2013-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 14 May 14:51 -0500, marco atzeri wrote so it seems the bash process has problem to connect with mc. Does mc --nosubshell freeze ? No, in fact, I get the plain $ prompt in the command bar and it accepts commands. not so much. following instruction on