rxvt/bash immediately exits

rxvt/bash immediately exits

[cygwin.overbored]

Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago
when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash
--login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1
seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However,
running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to
sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance!


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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[cygwin.overbored]

On 9/17/05, Eric Blake <ericblake@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago
>> when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash
>> --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1
>> seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However,
>> running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to
>> sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance!
>
> Please help us help you:
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> Did you recently upgrade?  Without details, no one here knows what
> you might have done that is the cause of the crash.

No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical
system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I
doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software
more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt.

I usually just use a shortcut to a script that runs "rxvt -e bash
--login -i". I can't think of any way other than using the -e argument
to directly run bash in rxvt. Any workarounds would also be
appreciated.


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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[Yadin Goldschmidt]

I had a similar problem in the past and running  "rebaseall" solved the 
problem. Be sure
to read the documentation and stop all running cygwin background services 
before running it.

<cygwin.overbored@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message 
news:8e53a59205091713032148432b@mail.gmail.com...
> Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago
> when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash
> --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1
> seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However,
> running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to
> sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance!
>
> 




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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[Reid Thompson]

>No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical
>system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I
>doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software
>more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt.
>
>I usually just use a shortcut to a script that runs "rxvt -e bash
>--login -i". I can't think of any way other than using the -e argument
>to directly run bash in rxvt. Any workarounds would also be
>appreciated.
>
>  
>
may or may not resolve your issue.  i invoke via
  rxvt -any_rxvt_options_that_i_want -e bash --rcfile /home/rthompso/.bashrc



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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[cygwin.overbored]

I upgraded Cygwin, as advised, but it still didn't work. Since then
I've been using cmd. However, today I discovered the solution: for
some reason, I have to specify /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash instead of
bash. This is strange, because bash exists nowhere else in my PATH
(only /bin/bash and /usr/bin/bash), so rxvt couldn't have been
executing something else.... Any clarification to this mystery would
be appreciated.

Furthermore, while I was using cmd, if at any time during that cmd
session I launched bash, then after exiting both bash and cmd, the
terminal window would hang, and needs to be killed. This is both
before and after the upgrade.

On 9/18/05, Reid Thompson - jreidthompson@earthlink.net
<+cygwin+overbored+d018aa8f5b.jreidthompson#earthlink.net@spamgourmet.com>
wrote:
>
> >No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical
> >system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I
> >doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software
> >more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt.
> >
> >I usually just use a shortcut to a script that runs "rxvt -e bash
> >--login -i". I can't think of any way other than using the -e argument
> >to directly run bash in rxvt. Any workarounds would also be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> may or may not resolve your issue.  i invoke via
>   rxvt -any_rxvt_options_that_i_want -e bash --rcfile /home/rthompso/.bashrc
>
>
>


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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[Eric Blake]

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According to cygwin.overbored [AT] spamgourmet [DOT] com on 10/2/2005 7:36 PM:
                             ^^^^^^
[It would be nice if you would set your mailer to provide a user name in
the From: line; Mozilla Firefox is not very good at munging email
addresses if it doesn't find a replacement name]

> I upgraded Cygwin, as advised, but it still didn't work. Since then
> I've been using cmd. However, today I discovered the solution: for
> some reason, I have to specify /bin/bash or /usr/bin/bash instead of
> bash. This is strange, because bash exists nowhere else in my PATH
> (only /bin/bash and /usr/bin/bash), so rxvt couldn't have been
> executing something else.... Any clarification to this mystery would
> be appreciated.

What is your PATH at the time you invoke rxvt?  If /bin and /usr/bin are
not in the path, then that would explain why it cannot find /bin/bash.

> 
> Furthermore, while I was using cmd, if at any time during that cmd
> session I launched bash, then after exiting both bash and cmd, the
> terminal window would hang, and needs to be killed. This is both
> before and after the upgrade.

Can you try the latest snapshot, to see if the problem still exists in the
candidate for 1.5.19?

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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[Eric Blake]

> On 9/17/05, Eric Blake <ericblake AT comcast DOT net> wrote:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

> > Please help us help you:
> >> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > Did you recently upgrade?  Without details, no one here knows what
> > you might have done that is the cause of the crash.

You still didn't follow directions.  The output of cygcheck is
essential for us to help diagnose what you have installed.

> 
> No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical
> system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I
> doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software
> more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt.

You may want to consider upgrading cygwin.  Anything older
than the most recent two releases are pretty much unsupported
on this list, because of the bugs that have been fixed in the
meantime.

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Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

[Eric Blake]

> Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago
> when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash
> --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1
> seconds and then immediately exits (the process disappears). However,
> running bash from cmd/explorer or rxvt without arguments (defaults to
> sh) works fine. Please help, thanks in advance!

Please help us help you:
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Did you recently upgrade?  Without details, no one here knows what
you might have done that is the cause of the crash.

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