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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:09:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <87br8v0ybh.fsf@peder.flower> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2005 12:09:55.0732 (UTC) FILETIME=[36D79D40:01C5390F] ----Original Message---- >From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen >Sent: 04 April 2005 08:57 > Bernhard Ege writes: > >> I tried running latex with strace: >> >> $ strace latex >> One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code >> >> And a windows saying: >> Title: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem >> ~ >> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. > > That's odd, comparing it with gdb This is symptomatic of attempting to execute ASCII text as x86 opcodes. I suspect strace has opened the symlink rather than the actual latex exe! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/