Re: Binaries Don't Execute

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, tbrowder wrote:

> I have upgraded my cygwin installation and now some bibaries don't
> execute. The ones I've noticed so far are ssh and diff.
>
> When I execute ssh, the binary is found on my path, and it shows as
> executable, but it responds with nothing.  Same thing with diff and
> which.
>
> Any clues?

Well, you could start here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In the absense of detailed information, all I can offer is a guess -- some
of the required DLLs are either missing or have permission problems.  You
could run the applications from a DOS prompt to see if any "missing DLL"
popups appear.
	Igor
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