Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

[CyberZombie]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:00:27PM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote:
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>>I'm running 4NT (current version) on a Windows XP system.  Recently I 
>>got a spyware program on my machine which messed some things up.  I 
>>removed the spyware, but I find that I cannot run any Cygwin utilities 
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>>from the 4NT prompt anymore.  When I run a program (such as cat, strace, 
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>>gcc, make, etc), I just immediately get a command prompt back.  I tried 
>>completely removing both 4NT and Cygwin, including registry entries and 
>>all copies of cyg*.dll, rebooting, and reinstalling both packages, but 
>>the problem is unchanged.
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>>The utilities run fine from an regular CMD.EXE console.  Jpsoft is 
>>unwilling to provide any assistance with this, though I'm a registered 
>>user.  Also, most (if not all) other console programs work, only the 
>>Cygwin utilities seem to have a problem.
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>>Can anyone here provide any ideas on what I can do to find out why the 
>>Cygwin utilities are terminating immediately??  I can't even run strace, 
>>since it also terminates immediately with no messages!!  This is very 
>>frustrating!!
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>strace isn't a cygwin application so something is really strange here.
>Can you run cygcheck.exe?  That's not a cygwin app either.  Maybe one of
>the utilities at the http://sysinternals.com/ site will help.
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>Otherwise, it sounds a little like you have more than one copy of the
>DLL on your system.  The system search utility would confirm or deny
>that fact.
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OT:  Any reason why you haven't moved to the Cygwin bash shell?  IMO, 
it's much better than 4NT (my prior command-line-of-choice prior to 
Cygwin)...

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