problems w/ cygwin-1.1.2

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Mon Jul 3 16:16:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:12:22AM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>>I am trying to use cygwin-1.1.2 on NT SP3.  I went thru the
>>installation process (via setup etc).  The installation process goes
>>thru without any problems.  However, when I try to use any program from
>>the bin dir (even ls) it takes an awfully long time to finish.  Even
>>"ls" seems to take atleast a few seconds (upto 10 secs at times) to
>>finish.  Similar times are observed w/ running bash.  It seems that the
>>time delay is quite independent of the program being run -- something
>>that makes me suspect the cygwin.dll.  Needless to say, this has
>>prevented me from using this version.  I had experienced similar
>>problems w/ cygwin-1.1.1.  I have found that my 1.5 yr old Cywgin-B20
>>works "normally".
>>
>>
>>(Please note that I DON'T have two versions of cygwin on my computer --
>>I went thru the painful process of installing the new version (over the
>>modem), only to uninstall it and install my old version back)
>>
>>Could anyone please shed light on this?  It will be quite good to move
>>to the latest cygwin release.
>
>Try the uname -a command and check that it says 1.1.2 in the version
>part.  When I had this problem I discovered that the setup had not
>copied the new cygwin1.dll file to the right place!

Sigh.  No.

This is undoubtedly the problem that has been reported here several
times.  Cygwin was looking for authentication information on the
network.

There should be more details in the archives.

You can either wait until the next version or use a snapshot.

cgf

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