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From:	Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Perl page fault - old news ??
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:25:48 -0700
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John K wrote:

> I'm learning Cygwin and Perl. Perl is currently 5.8.0 under Windows 
> 98. I have run setup today so I think everything is current.
>
>   $ perldoc CGI
>
> results in a Windows pop which contains ...
>
> PERL caused an invalid page fault in
> module FCNTL.DLL at 017f:00b931b8.
> Registers:
> EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=00b931b8 EFLGS=00010246
> EBX=00b96000 SS=0187 ESP=0073f558 EBP=0073f560
> ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=00b947bc FS=3d47
> EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=610cff60 GS=0000
> Bytes at CS:EIP:
> 8b 11 85 d2 74 15 89 f6 39 5a 0c 74 60 8b 42 14
>
> Yesterday I also got a 'bunch' of faults while installing DBI from 
> CPAN, (but it *seems* to have installed OK despite several such error 
> message boxes).
>
> I don't know what's going on. Searching gmane.os.cygwin for "Perl 
> crashes" shows postings which suggest that 5.8.0 has some problems 
> with CPAN moudules (and more?).
>
> Is there something I can do or should do to make this work better? 

I use Perl 5.8.0, DBI and CPAN on Cygwin. Never had any page faults. I 
suggest you think that the problem lies outside of this and that perhaps 
your Cygwin installation is a bit faulty.
-- 
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