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Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:26:55 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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On 7/4/2010 8:56 AM, P. Goldmann wrote:
>
>>> Is there a way to investigate whether a unknown BLODA-app or something else
>>> causes the problem?
>>
>> Typically the process is just look at the security software that you have
>> installed and try uninstalling one-by-one until the problem is resolved.
>> Then you can reinstall all the other ones and report the problem to the
>> vendor of the offending app.
>>
>
> @ Corinna&  Larry: Thanks for your hints and suggestions!
>
> I did what Larry wrote, there was only one piece of security software
> to uninstall. No luck. Fresh setup of cygwin. Still no luck. Reinstall
> new version of my av. Of course no luck...
> I can add to the problem-report that not only top doesn't work in 95%
> of invocations. On a random basis I get also fork()-errors or
> segfaults when launching one more xterm-window.
>
> Well, looks like I'm not hacker enough to solve it all on my own. So,
> to investigate the issue: is there some super-verbose or debug-mode to
> run cygwin/X/xterm/top to get further information what's going wrong?
>
> Probably everybody can easily imagine, that I'm not keen on rolling
> back the configured system to a plain unpatched W7 just to add one
> more item to BLODA. That's where my question regarding verbose/debug
> comes from.
>
> Furthermore I see from the list, lot's of people have issues with
> their cygwin/cygwinX installations on their w7 64bit boxes, often
> showing somehow similar symptoms. At the people who got it running
> without problems, segfaults, fork()-errors: What's the trick?
> Disabling UAC and Defender? Using an English language Windows? Turning
> on/off DEP, VT-x or whatever?

Have you tried rebaseall yet?

Ken

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