Re: New installation does not connect stdout to terminal

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Russell K Montgomery wrote:

> I have installed cygwin on a new Windows XP box and when I run Cygwin I
> do not get output from commands on the terminal.  The only way I can get
> the output is to redirect stdout to stderr "ls -l 1>&2"
>
> I have used Cygwin for several years on Windows 98 and for the past year
> on another Windows XP box but have not seen any behavior like this.  I
> have searched the archives and not found any reports that are similar to
> this behavior.  Have I overlooked something?

No, this is something new (and weird).  First, can you try a snapshot (see
<http://cygwin.com/snapshots> for download and installation instructions)
and report if it fixes the problem for you?  The Cygwin developers are
very close[1] to releasing 1.5.19, so any testing of snapshots is helpful.

A WAG: does "/bin/ls -l" have the same problem?

If the snapshot doesn't fix your problem, some more information would be
needed for us to try reproducing this: are you running the command from a
bash shell, from rxvt, from a CMD prompt, or somewhere else?  Does it fail
for all commands (e.g., time)?  When you run a command that outputs to
both stdout and stderr, do you only see stderr output?  Do you see the
output of Windows commands (e.g., "net")?  If you have access to a machine
with the same DLL version that doesn't exhibit this problem, could you
please run the command under "strace" on both machines (i.e., run
"/bin/strace -o ls.strace /bin/ls -l") and compare the output?

FWIW, your cygcheck output looks ok.
HTH,
	Igor
[1] <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00503.html>
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