Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BEC05D6.F8730868@syntrex.com> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:35:34 +0100 From: Pavel Tsekov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "McIntyre, Terry" CC: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: ncurses install crashes on Win 2000 References: <1F8A54F6F5ACD41196E20006298FBE3D05D3B4D8@sapxch03.corp.commenergy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "McIntyre, Terry" wrote: > > Installed Cygwin and Xfree on Win 2000 machine. attempt to start xterm gives > error: cygncurses5.dll not found. > Per FAQ, reinstall ncurses. This proceeds fine, until a "Blue Screen of > Death" appears, and my machine reboots. > The reboot hangs; power cycle is required to restart Windows. This is an IBM > Thinkpad T20. > > Haven't found any solution in the usual places. > > What can I do to get past this problem? > > Thanks for your assistance. Do you happen to have a McAffee virus scanner running on this machine ? If so turn it off... There was a thread on the maling list recently about this issue. Dont remember the exact keywords though -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/