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On Sunday 24 November 2002 14:35, Charles Wilson wrote: > Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit (or > asked the obvious question): > > Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running > while setup.exe was executed? > > I *always* disable McAfee before running setup. Every time I forget, I > get a bluescreen. Minidump analysis shows that the fault is in fact > McAfee -- which runs in kernel mode -- and not setup. > > (I also turn off McAfee when compiling; it really slows down disk IO) > Every time my admins force a new version of McAfee, I modify the installation to remove the feature which checks every script every time it is executed, instead setting it up to perform a full weekly scan. I have had no problems this way with setup or running builds. With that McAfee feature enabled, scripts will stall so long that standby is invoked. -- Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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