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From: "Michael Scheibler" <michael DOT scheibler AT onevision DOT de>
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Subject: Re: NTVDM illegal instruction
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:15:29 +0200
Organization: OneVision Software AG
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From: "Michael Eager" <eager AT eagercon DOT com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:26 PM


> I'm getting pop-up error message from "16-bit MSDOS Subsystem"
> which complains about "NTVDM illegal instruction" and gives
> CS:05d8, IP:0e9d, OP:ff620200 (none of which seems remarkably useful).
> It also displays /usr/src/redhat/SPECS which is the current directory.
>
> I'm running the latest version of Cygwin on NT2K, latest SR, on an
> Athlon processor.  The problem seems reproducable.  At the time I get
> the error, there are several copies of bash running, as well as rpm,
> cmd, make, and NTVDM.
>
> The MS website has a page on "Troubleshooting NTVDM and WOW Startup
Errors",
> (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/4/53.ASP)
> which I'll follow and see if it helps.
>
> Has anyone encountered similar problems?

I have! Not with cygwin, but with mingw gcc running in a cygwin bash. When I
am running ./configure on GNUstep and it tries to determine if it runs on
cygwin I get this strange message. However it's not really a problem because
it says no after that, so I didn't need to find out more about it.

Michael Scheibler

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