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Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
- To: "Georges, Chris" <Chris dot Georges at disney dot com>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Error: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:26:02 -0500
At 01:30 AM 11/7/2000, Georges, Chris wrote:
>I just upgraded my cygwin installation from 1.0 to the latest cygwin DLLs
>(cygwin-1.1.5-4) and now almost every utililty (ls,cat,etc) prints out
>"couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout" when it starts. tcsh prints the
>error and exits. I backed out to cygwin-1.1.4 and got the same problem. I
>am running all of these apps remotely in a telnet window connected a windows
>2000 telnet server (the default one that comes with win2k) on a remote
>machine, this worked fine until I upgraded cygwin. The apps appear to run
>OK when run in a normal window on the local machine.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>chris
A cygcheck -s -r -v may be helpful. My guess is you have a mixture of 1.0
and 1.1.x stuff that's causing you troubles, but that's purely a guess.
The results of cygcheck should help you determine this.
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