1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Dave wrote:

 > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

 >> On 12/28/2009 06:23 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:

 >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

 >>>> Lee D. Rothstein wrote:

 >>>>> Are you running Vista 64bit? If not, I suspect the registry keys 
set in
 >>>>> Vista 64 are not correct as set by 'chere'.

 >>>> No, actually I'm not, so if you're sure it's a Vista 64bit thing, then
 >>>> that narrows the focus and those affected. The closest I have is
 >>>> Windows 7 x64 but I can't experiment at the moment with it since
 >>>> it requires a reboot.

 >>> I had no problems with Vista 32 bit, that's my only evidence.
 >> OK, I've installed Cygwin 1.7.1 on a Windows 7 x64 system.  The
 >> system didn't have a previous version of Cygwin.  I installed just
 >> the default packages plus "chere".  Once the installation was done,
 >> I invoked 'chere -i' from a command prompt started as Administrator
 >> and running 'bash -li'.  The configuration of "chere" succeeded
 >> and I found "Bash Prompt Here" was available in the context menu
 >> for directories.  I find the same is true on Windows 7 x86.  So I
 >> guess this isn't allot of help beyond the information that this does
 >> work on systems running Windows 7.  Perhaps someone with Vista
 >> x64 will be able to answer your original question.

 > It's been a while since I've had to look at chere. Bottom line - there
 > haven't been any previous reports of failures on Vista 64 bit (and I
 > don't have a 64-bit system available to me).

How many of these?:

  * Vista, 64 bit
  * Root not at c:\Cygwin
  * Mintty is terminal
  * Bash is shell
  * Not in any way using 'Cygin.bat' as the "invoker"

 > Can you provide the output of `chere -r`, and the chere command you've
 > run most recently. That'll allow me to diagnose what it's tried to do.

Attached!

Since, I had uninstalled 'chere', I reinstalled it, Bash run as
Administrator:

$ chere -i -a -n -e "Mintty Bash" -t mintty -o \
  "--icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 -"

 > Also, do you know where the " Shell defaulting to bash defined for lr"
 > is coming from?

The '-' at the end of the argument to '-o' tells 'mintty' to use
the login shell. which for 'lr' is 'bash'. Since you seem to be
implying that the quote is not coming from 'chere', I infer that
somehow it's coming from 'mintty'? Perhaps, 'bash'?

Note that once again, the Windows menu item comes up:
"cygwin_bash".

If you're out of ideas, might you give me some clues to look for
bad keys in the registry?

 > Dave
 > chere maintainer.

Thanks for your help.

cherelessLee
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