Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/26/17:52:46
Robert Collins wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to
>>>> upgrade/add packages the first run crashed .
>>>> on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated
>>>> perfectly. I tried running a few more times to reproduce the crash and
>>>> on average about one in 5 times (very rough average) it crashed.(see
>>>> attached drwatson crashlog) for log of 2 of these crashes.
>>
>>
>> I'm getting this too - but only on my desktop - not my laptop.
>>
>> Crash frequency is only 1 in 20, as well.
>>
>>
>>> Ok, well this is 'not good' :}.
>>>
>>> At what point does it crash?
>>
>>
>> Before the splash page appears.
>
> Ah. Can you reproduce it under gdb? If not, can you generate the line
> numbers from the addresses in the backtrace (hint: fire up gdb, load the
> .exe that you used to provoke the problem, and then
> list *0x000223344 )
No, can't reproduce inside gdb.
The address of the crash is in the system DLL area.
I will download Dr. MinGW, and try to get a backtrace that way.
I suggest relocating this thread to cygwin-apps. I will post my next message
there, unless told otherwise.
Max.
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