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

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:00:27PM +0000, Daniel Miller wrote:
>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 
>from the 4NT prompt anymore.  When I run a program (such as cat, strace, 
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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!!

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.

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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