My Windows 7 system hands on svn --version also, but produces no messages to /var/log/messages. I tried uninstalling libsasl2-devel but doing so had no effect. Regard -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple