From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 107916 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2015 22:30:33 -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 107895 invoked by uid 89); 24 Nov 2015 22:30:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wm0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:30:31 +0000 Received: by wmuu63 with SMTP id u63so115715503wmu.0 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:30:28 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.28.188.67 with SMTP id m64mr754748wmf.60.1448404228437; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (p5B299C95.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [91.41.156.149]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k125sm640883wmf.2.2015.11.24.14.30.27 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:30:27 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Mintty 2.2.2: possible hang when breaking (CTRL+C) out of pinging unresponsive host To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <01f501d12701$d5af6fb0$810e4f10$@vianet.ca> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <5654E4E3.8050605@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01f501d12701$d5af6fb0$810e4f10$@vianet.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00389.txt.bz2 On 24/11/2015 22:48, Jeff Hansen wrote: > I have recently installed the latest 32-bit version of Cygwin on my Windows > 10 Professional operating system. > > When I ping a host, and the ping doesn't reply for a few minutes, I find the > ping hangs when I try to break out of it using CTRL+C. > IT is at this point I have to close the Mintty window completely and re-open > as it is unresponsive. > Any pings to a host that does reply doesn't result in a 'hung ping', as > described here. > > My only fix up to this point is to downgrade to a previous installation of > Cygwin that I've had for approx. 5 years now. That copy has Mintty ver > 0.9.9 installed. > > I did attempt to go through the various forums and sites to try to find > other previous reports of this, and while I did find some previous reports > of this happening, I have been unable to find a solution that fixed the > problem I am having. > > I try my hardest to not bother you good people. but I am at my wits end at > what to try here. Any and all suggestions that works towards a solution is > very welcome. > > > -Jeff > the problem is also present on 64 bit. As ping on windows console is reacting at CTRL+C I assume it is an interaction with mintty. As workaround you should be able to kill ping with task manager without killing mintty. -- 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