Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread fergus
There have been two strange changes in behaviour/ response/ output that I have noticed recently, and that I can only attribute to the installation of XP SP2, since that is all that has altered on my system. Has anybody else who has installed SP2 noticed this, or similar, or anything else (or

Re: Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/31/2004 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been two strange changes in behaviour/ response/ output that I have noticed recently, and that I can only attribute to the installation of XP SP2 I'm using SP2. I had been using the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot but reverted to the current

Re: Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:55 AM 8/31/2004, you wrote: There have been two strange changes in behaviour/ response/ output that I have noticed recently, and that I can only attribute to the installation of XP SP2, since that is all that has altered on my system. Has anybody else who has installed SP2 noticed this, or

Re: Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:15:48PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: 'setup.exe' is not a Cygwin program so it would not be affected by a 'cygwin1.dll' snapshot or other version. cygcheck isn't a cygwin program either although it does run cygwin programs. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:28 PM 8/31/2004, cgf wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:15:48PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: 'setup.exe' is not a Cygwin program so it would not be affected by a 'cygwin1.dll' snapshot or other version. cygcheck isn't a cygwin program either although it does run cygwin programs. Heh. Good

Re: Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread fergus
Thank you for your rapid responses. Maybe I have induced an irrelevance by mentioning my recent upgrade to SP2. I took a look at cygcheck -s in the barest possible bash shell (usually I use rxvt) to try to make sense of what's happening. The output consists of package w1 version

Re: Strange behaviours: attributable to XP SP2?

2004-08-31 Thread fergus
Sorry, the SP2? query turns out to be a completely false trail. What was happening was that in the file /etc/setup/installed.db I had an entry for libopenldap2-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-[repeat many times]-2-15 being a hangover from a recent naming problem that caused successive updates to be