Re: Bash sub-shell freezing in Midnight Commander

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Il 5/14/2013 8:37 PM, Nate Bargmann ha scritto:
> * On 2013 14 May 11:52 -0500, marco atzeri wrote:
>
> > Hi Nate,
> > set mc for 'Lynx type motion', disabled the hint bar,
> > but I always see the $ of bar command.
>
> Hi Marco.
>
> Using Windows Explorer I deleted the .cache, .config, and .local
> directories (only mc had anything stored there) and started mc.  Upon
> start with no configuration changes the command bar is visible but the
> bash subshell prompt is not displayed.
>
> > To remove it I need explicetely to set it in the options-layout
> >
> > So you are setting something else, I assume.
>
> I've even replaced my slightly modified ~.bashrc with the copy from
> /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc and started mc again with no change from
> the default configuration.  The Bash prompt is still not visible in mc
> and still has the same freeze where killing the bash.exe process
> restores basic mc functionality.

so it seems the bash process has problem to connect with mc.
Does "mc --nosubshell" freeze ?

> > Additional, have you tried CTRL-o for switching to sub-shell in full
> > window ?
>
> I just tried it and mc calls the shell and then the mintty window
> freezes before the subshell is run.  Windows Task Manager shows
> Bash.exe using 99% of CPU and killing that process gives a bash prompt
> and a mintty error box.  Evidently mc has been killed as it is no longer
> shown by the 'ps' command.  To this point I have not set any
> configuration options in mc.
>
> Does that help?
>
> - Nate


not so much.

following instruction on http://cygwin.com/problems.html :
"Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an 
attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode 
the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be 
easily viewed. "

so I can see if any something particular show up on your system



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