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Cutting down PATH didn't help:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>path
PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\cygwin\u
sr\X11R6
\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>start C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

...still produced the hang. 

Performing the rebase procedure did not appear to have any change,
either.

I think that it's odd that once this problem began to occur, it has
persisted across clean reinstalls or different versions, reboots, etc.
Is there anything else that I could need to clean out between installs
other than what is covered in the FAQ
(http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all)?

-Sam

PS Dave, sorry for sending you this reply directly instead of the list.
I didn't police Outlook sufficiently to keep it from doing stupid things
with the address.

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Dave Korn
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:30 AM
To: Cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Cannot start bash prompts: processes intermittently don't
die

Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 13 March 2008 15:05:

> I'm running into a problem with a previously-working installation of
> cygwin on Windows 2003 server.


  Two things to try: first, cut down your path, from this ...

Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
	c:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\
	c:\OIS\ORBexpress\RT_2.6.4_PATCH_G1P\host\x86-winnt\bin
	c:\OIS\ORBexpress\
	c:\WINDOWS\system32
	c:\WINDOWS
	c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
	c:\IBM\hcppc\bin
	c:\WINDOWS\MsNfs\
	C:\cygwin\bin
	c:\Qt\4.3.3\bin
	c:\MinGW\bin
	c:\WINDOWS\System32
	c:\Program Files\doxygen\bin
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools
	c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin

... to this ...

Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
	c:\WINDOWS\system32
	c:\WINDOWS
	c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

.. and see if it makes the problem go away.  Second, have you been
through
the rebaseall[*] procedure yet?


    cheers,
      DaveK

[*] - Install the rebase package using setup.exe, read the readme in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin, stop all cygwin servers and services and exit all
cygwin shells and applications, finally run rebaseall in ash launched
from a
DOS prompt.
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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