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To:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: OpenSSH crashes - able to repeat the cause
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From:	ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date:	23 Jan 2001 17:35:12 +0000
In-Reply-To:	Corinna Vinschen's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:00:00 +0100"
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Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:01:12AM +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> > I'm trying as hard as I can with the resources I have available to
> > debug, by giving as much detail on the problem which has not otherwise 
> > been provided, in the hopes that they will spark an 'aha!' reaction
> > from someone.
> > 
> > Would compiling id (the program which fails) from source with -g be a
> > useful step?  Presumably not, because the crash goes in to the Win2k
> > debugger directly -- what would be required to get symbols available
> > for debugging at that point?  I have a bit of experience debugging C
> 
> You need a non stripped version of the Cygwin DLL and gdb. The
> non stripped version is easily produced by downloading the sources
> from cvs as descibed on http://www.cygwin.com/cvs.html and following

I'll try that tomorrow.

> > under Win2K, and would be happy to try to follow suggestions in this
> > area to help sort this out once and for all.
> 
> You (and others having that problem) could do me a tiny favour,
> please. Please download the latest developers snapshot from
> http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots and try that DLL instead of the
> official 1.1.7. If it suddenly works - good for me. If not, please
> send a stacktrace  to the mailing list if available.

The snapshot at .../cygwin1-20010119.dll.bz2 does not fix the
problem.  Do you want the raw hex trace?

ht
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