Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/04/29/14:58:02
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Jennifer Smith wrote:
> I tried to install cygwin on the Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5308), here
> are the problems I've run into:
> 1) During package install bash seems to crash.
> I get this dialog from windows:
> Please close bash.exe
> A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
> notify you if a solution is available.
>
> This occurs (it appears) once per package.
>
> 2) After install tools crash. About one in three times I run ls in
> /usr/bin I get:
>
> [foo AT bar /usr/bin]$ ls
> 6 [main] ? (4596) C:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't alloc
> ate heap, Win32 error 0, base 0x800000, top 0x89B000, reserve_size
> 630784, alloc
> size 634880, page_const 4096
> 36534798 [main] tcsh 3908 child_copy: stack write copy failed,
> 0x227010..0x23000
> 0, done 0, windows pid 2256708, Win32 error 5
> No more processes.
>
> If you would like anymore information feel free to contact me at this
> email address.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jennifer
I don't see it likely that cygwin will be actively supported on Vista
until that OS is officially released or there is at minimum a public beta.
Also last I checked beta 2 hasn't come out. They were still releasing
refresh releases for Beta 1.
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