X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.5.22 - everything crashes, windows exception Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:45:54 -0000 Message-ID: <03a201c7236b$9f73aea0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <458724C4.9000809@cygwin.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 18 December 2006 23:31, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Paul Murphy wrote: >> Hello, >> I have tried running with Avast AV off, and with Outpost firewall off, >> and I have tried just copying the following files to c:\cygwin to see if >> a more standard dir location would help: > I believe Outpost has been implicated before when these kinds of problems > pop up. Repeatedly. > when you didn't have these problems), you can uninstall them and try again. > Turning them off is not generally enough because of changes these kinds of > programs make in the network stack when they are installed. In fact, it is /known/ not to help, specifically in the case of outpost. See http://tinyurl.com/ye3wpp and http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00731.html, http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00717.html and http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00072.html in particular. 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/