X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48469D1C.4050801@bmts.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:48:12 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.25: Random segfaults in unix tools References: <20080527140538.GD32147@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <03c901c8c63b$601d1d30$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> In-Reply-To: <03c901c8c63b$601d1d30$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Dave Korn wrote: > Jamie Cole wrote on 04 June 2008 12:56: > >> Also we have an identical physical (e.g. non VMWare) machine running the >> same tools and version of Cygwin which does not seg fault. Is it possible >> there is a actually a bug in Cygwin which is causing these problems when >> running on a virtual machine? > > Uhhh, by definition, if the same piece of software doesn't do /exactly/ > the same thing on a virtualised machine as it does on a real machine, it is > the *virtualisation* that is at fault, not the software running under it. Not to point out the potentially obvious, but have you run memtest on the machine that is failing? I had a machine that worked great until the user loaded up a particular app and then it would randomly segfault. The app was not the problem, it was a bad stick of RAM in high address space... Just a thought. And I do run multiple cygwin instances in a VMWare environment and it works great - for my application mix anyways. Ralph -- 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/