Greetings, Henry Goss! > Thanks. Thought I was going nuts. > In the case of 1) Ill see if I can narrow down the process to reproduce. > Worst case I can do a reinstall and solve it. For empty output and sudden death of the apps, the possible cause is an injected third party library. AKA "BLODA". https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda P.S. Please no top-posting in this list. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, January 16, 2020 13:30:02 Sorry for my terrible english...BKCB؛[H\ܝΈY[K؛[\˚[BTNY[K٘\KB[][ێY[K˚[B[XܚXH[ΈY[K[ [XܚXK\[\CBB