From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Raimund Bauer" Subject: RE: Problem with gitk on cygwin Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:36:22 +0200 Organization: Softwarelandschaft Message-ID: <000201c7729e$1d7c40b0$0b0aa8c0@abf.local> References: <20070330052533.GQ13247@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'git'" To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 30 09:35:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HXBeB-0007va-KD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:35:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752274AbXC3Hfk (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:35:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753173AbXC3Hfk (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:35:40 -0400 Received: from s15211414.onlinehome-server.info ([87.106.16.196]:47651 "EHLO s15211414.onlinehome-server.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752274AbXC3Hfk (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:35:40 -0400 Received: (qmail 809 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2007 09:41:03 +0200 Received: from host-62-245-155-90.customer.m-online.net (HELO swl011) (62.245.155.90) by s15211414.onlinehome-server.info with SMTP; 30 Mar 2007 09:41:03 +0200 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 In-Reply-To: <20070330052533.GQ13247@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org > From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] > > I have seen this failure before, and its usually a result of > having your CYGWIN environment variable including 'notty': > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html > > Or maybe its the opposite. I don't have access to my Cygwin > system right now, so I cannot check if I have notty, tty, or > just ommitted it entirely from my CYGWIN environment varible. > But I think that's the issue. Thanks a lot, that was the right pointer, even if I don't understand what went wrong. My CYGWIN environment variable was set to "ntsec tty", and after doing a export CYGWIN=ntsec in the shell (which according to your link shouldn't change anything) gitk magically started working! > Shawn. Thank you very much my saviour, now I can use gitk in office too ;-) -- best regards Ray