From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61156 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2020 16:57:12 -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 61149 invoked by uid 89); 4 Mar 2020 16:57:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=garbled, sk:HKEY_LO, sk:hkey_lo, cmdexe X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:57:11 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id 9XKVj8imenCig9XKWjpgY1; Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:57:09 -0700 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <345b8a7a-bcbb-450b-08c0-943f3bb3b683@astrofoto.org> <20200303185335.5f4369c163b3a4b241ef429d@nifty.ne.jp> <20200303213524.5ddf37854e2eb85eca50ed96@nifty.ne.jp> <20200303215912.6c72af3e17e8ef0f0f58b8a6@nifty.ne.jp> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <5dd4f9c8-5e69-3355-6b80-6ab953475715@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-03/txt/msg00075.txt On 2020-03-03 15:02, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > cygcheck output attached, just in case... > > Per previous message, had to interrupt id, which was hanging, which > produced > > garbled output from "id" command - no uid= found > > while cygcheck carried on... > and then hung with Process Explorer showing > > bash.exe > bash.exe > cygcheck.exe > cmd.exe > cygrunsrv.exe As cygcheck is a Windows msvcrt.dll program, not a Cygwin cygwin1.dll program, it uses Windows popen which runs commands under $COMSPEC rather than $SHELL, and that can be affected by {HKLM,HKCU}/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor/ registry entries e.g.: $ regtool list -v /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Command\ Processor/ DefaultColor (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000000 (0) EnableExtensions (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000001 (1) CompletionChar (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000040 (64) PathCompletionChar (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000040 (64) $ regtool list -v /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Command\ Processor/ Autorun (REG_EXPAND_SZ) = "@chcp 65001 >nul" CompletionChar (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000009 (9) DefaultColor (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000000 (0) EnableExtensions (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000001 (1) PathCompletionChar (REG_DWORD) = 0x00000009 (9) runs chcp 65001 at cmd startup, but could also do much more and different. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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