From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20630 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2014 09:59:47 -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 20619 invoked by uid 89); 6 Aug 2014 09:59:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-vc0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f174.google.com) (209.85.220.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:59:45 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id la4so3616277vcb.19 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 02:59:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.221.24.135 with SMTP id re7mr613214vcb.53.1407319182548; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 02:59:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.105.226 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Aug 2014 02:59:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Kal Sze Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin terminal collapse To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 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 th= at 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 m= issing. > > Most importantly, the bash and cygwin packages are broken. You need to r= einstall these. I don=E2=80=99t know how your UI works, but those of us wh= o can use mice click the version number in the Cygwin setup.exe package lis= t until it says Reinstall. > > Also broken are binutils and gcc-core, which will prevent you from compil= ing 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=E2=80=99s no sense leaving them in a broken st= ate. > -- > 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 > By the way, could that be hint of virus activity or hard disk dying? -- 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