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Re: Bash hangs, CTRL-C required


At 11:06 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>When I try to open Cygwin's Bash window, nothing further happens: the
>cursor blinks in the left upper corner, no login happens. The windows
>reacts on CTRL-C though. After CTRL-C I am requested to confirm the
>current batch excecution with yes/no. After confirmation I get a Bash
>prompt (sometimes), although it's not my custom profile's prompt.
>
>Don't know where this behaviour came from, as I did not change anything
>by myself. I also tried to reinstall the base files again, but it did
>not help.
>
>Has anybody an idea what's going on here?

Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines outlined at the 
link below:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

You may also want to change the following line in 'cygwin.bat' from

bash --login -i

to

bash --login -i -x

for testing.  This should help you pinpoint where things are getting hung up.




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