Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:26:08 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gdb and STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION Message-ID: <20030818222608.GF22397@emcb.co.uk> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030818221812.55342.qmail@web40807.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030818221812.55342.qmail@web40807.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Jim Holder wrote: > I can neither run gdb without any parameters -- > > gdb > > -- nor with a compiled program name (in the current directory) as an argument > -- > > gdb a.exe > > Though I can run -- > > gdb --help > > With "gdb" or "gdb a.exe" I get a segmentation fault. The core dump reveals > "Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at..." I added my user ID to /etc/passwd, > but that didn't help. Have you tried re-installing gdb to see if that fixes your problem? > I am running cygwin 1.3.19-1, gdb 20030303-1, windows 2000 version 5.0 sp 4. > > What do I need? That should be sufficient, though, an upgrade wouldn't go a miss. I'd try upgrading Cygwin and/or GDB, and see it if helps. -- Elfyn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/