Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/12/10:28:21
Don Edvalson wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Right. Starting from the beginning and looking at the simplest/most
>> common
>> potential causes makes the most sense. And providing as much detail as
>> possible about what's going on is a good idea as well. However, if
>> the more
>> obvious solutions don't help, then you might want to consider this
>> option:
>>
>> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>
>>
>
> Larry,
>
> I tried the solution mentioned above, but it didn't help. However it did
> put me on the right track. I started carefully killing Windows
> processes. After I had killed enough of them, Cygwin started working
> perfectly again and I could do my compiles. So I think I was looking in
> the wrong direction with rebase in the first place. I am still narrowing
> it down, but I found that two pieces of hardware I had added lately, a
> webcam and a Sprint Wireless network connection were running lots of
> processes all the time, even when that hardware was not installed or
> running. I believe the culprit is one of these. When I figure out
> exactly what process was causing this, I will let you know.
>
> Thanks for the help.
Glad it helped get you back running.
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