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Michael J. Wheeler wrote:
> OK, I've been working on this problem for several days now and I'm about
> ready to give up all together. I'm really hoping someone can help me out. I
> used cygwin for years on XP and now that I've moved to Vista, I can't get
> anything to work.
> 
> Whenever I try to run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat , it crashes. I have
> created a stackdump and put it here:
> https://go.pittstate.edu/mjw/cygwin.strace . I was told to rebaseall and
> that didn't work. I also tried rebasing to a different address, then back
> to the default -- still nothing.
> 
> Next, I was told to try to rebuild the current cygwin package. That fails
> on make install every time (collect2.exe). After that, I tried building the
> latest snapshot... Now configure fails near the beginning when it's testing
> to see if gcc works. The only way I've seen to get around that is to do a
> full reinstall.. but that's kind of frustrating waiting for 2 hours to
> reinstall everything.
> 
> Basically I'm at my wits end and I really hope somebody can help before I
> give up on being able to use cygwin on Vista...
> 

Have you followed the recent threads on Vista?  How you tried just using a
snapshot?



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