From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1103 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2014 10:07:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1091 invoked by uid 89); 6 Aug 2014 10:07:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-we0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-we0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f172.google.com) (74.125.82.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:07:24 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id x48so2387430wes.17 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:07:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.185.228 with SMTP id ff4mr14992591wic.76.1407319641358; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (p5B1744DF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [91.23.68.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h3sm1289270wjz.48.2014.08.06.03.07.20 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53E1FE3C.8060404@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:07:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin terminal collapse References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 On 06/08/2014 11:59, Kal Sze wrote: > On 6 August 2014 17:55, Warren Young wrote: >> >> On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Nikhil Nair wrote: >> >>> >> >> The output shows that a number of key packages are incomplete, meaning that files they own no longer exist on your system. It is not that c:\cygwin is missing, but that a small but critical subset of key Cygwin files are missing. >> >> Most importantly, the bash and cygwin packages are broken. You need to reinstall these. I don’t know how your UI works, but those of us who can use mice click the version number in the Cygwin setup.exe package list until it says Reinstall. >> >> Also broken are binutils and gcc-core, which will prevent you from compiling most open-source software. >> >> You should also reinstall the openssh, pulseaudio, and texinfo packages. These might have just been dragged in as dependencies, and not be software you actually use, but there’s no sense leaving them in a broken state. >> -- >> > > By the way, could that be hint of virus activity or hard disk dying? > possible, but also a crash can leave the hard disk in an unclean status. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple