X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:41:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty Message-ID: <20080827204102.GA15077@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:55:54PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >I've recompiled screen for Cygwin 1.7. It runs fine until I do the following: > >* Open a cmd console and run c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --login . >* Start a new screen session (screen). >* Detach the screen session (C-a d). >* Exit bash. >* Try to start bash again. > >Then I get: > > 3 [main] bash 212 c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - Can't >create master tty You forgot to mention that you need to set CYGWIN=tty before starting the process. I can duplicate this and should have it fixed soon. Thanks for the simple to reproduce test case. >N.B. no cygcheck -svr here, since cygcheck seems to be totally broken for me in >1.7-- see next message. I can duplicate the cygcheck problem on one machine but not on the machine where I do development unfortunately. Do you have the same problem with a cygcheck.exe from a snapshot? cgf -- 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/