From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 126197 invoked by alias); 2 May 2018 23:55:02 -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 126140 invoked by uid 89); 2 May 2018 23:55:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=kaz, Kylheku, kylheku, reboot X-HELO: resqmta-po-09v.sys.comcast.net Received: from resqmta-po-09v.sys.comcast.net (HELO resqmta-po-09v.sys.comcast.net) (96.114.154.168) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:54:59 +0000 Received: from resomta-po-18v.sys.comcast.net ([96.114.154.242]) by resqmta-po-09v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTP id E1NPfMLAvVyXKE1aMfsNVG; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:54:58 +0000 Received: from [10.1.5.114] ([216.34.91.132]) by resomta-po-18v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTPA id E1YFfWk1nqWUgE1YJfly6r; Wed, 02 May 2018 23:52:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Programs become a no-op To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: David Rothenberger Message-ID: Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 23:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfFT2vacM/miribIIW3kvAANRVRSTyh9lQYALnKHSe8Zd4wc+jJVApLw0lsF5Oxl/TIrGW+MIBjIg4+a/qhqtawNVCXTmsfbrW2ubQ7/dyG0L2B0aM45G xZ8cas+kL8l7PFdl65Plw5IXS99wj+7Felj7weUdWpbguUInC+j2P6qc X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 2018-05-02 14:15, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 5/2/2018 1:13 PM, Boylan, Ross wrote: >>> I've tried >>> ssh -V >>> ssh --help >>> ssh -v somene@somewhere >>> and in all cases nothing happens except that I get a new command >>> prompt.  They used to work fine. >> >> This is usually due to a missing dependency. You can try "echo $?" >> after one of the failing commands. If it is 127, that's probably the >> issue. I usually track down the missing dependency by running the >> program under strace (strace ssh --help). It should pop-up a dialog >> window with the missing dependency library. > > What if it is 127 and the dialog says "The procedure entry point > __locale_ctype_ptr > could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll"? > > That looks like an outdated cygwin1.dll w.r.t. that program (in this > case gdb). > > But why doesn't setup.exe ensure that cygwin1.dll is up-to-date for > other things it installs? This can happen if you have Cygwin processes running when you run setup and you ignore warnings. If I were you, I would first try a reboot. If that doesn't work, I would ensure that all Cygwin processes and services are stopped and then use setup to reinstall all your packages. If *that* doesn't work, I would follow the instructions at http://cygwin.com/problems.html to provide additional information for troubleshooting. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org -- 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