Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <146040-220031113153254434@M2W085.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: bhiksha AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: BSOD on cygwin Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:32:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jan 2003 15:32:54.0391 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A768070:01C2BB19] Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h0DFYNk23409 Sounds to me like the problem was that you installed Cygwin over an existing Cygwin installation, the existing DLL was locked in place by running Cygwin processes, and that you didn't immediately reboot after exiting setup so that the new DLL could be put in place. I believe setup warns you of potential misbehavior in this mode. Certainly, this would explain the 'bad behavior until reboot' scenario you report. Any chance that this was your issue? Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Bhiksha Raj bhiksha AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:59:22 -0500 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: BSOD on cygwin Im not sure what happened, but my problem went away. I do not have VPN or an antivirus program running - I turned those off due to some problems with other software earlier. No firewall software either - I have an external DLink firewall. For the record, here's what I did that seemed to fix things: 1. I reinstalled cygwin 1.3.8.1. "cygcheck" ran once after the reinstall, but failed again on subsequent runs. The machine still crashed when I tried to "./configure" guile. 2. The configure script was dying at a "uniq". I tried running uniq on a file, from the command line. It crashed the window (not the machine), with a windows popup message about some dll. I didnt note it down (unfortuntely). 3. I restarted another cygwin window and reran uniq on the same file. This time uniq went through. 4. I reran configure (note that I havent *changed* anything after the earlier run, when the machine crashed). It went through cleanly. 5. I double checked. 'cygcheck' also returns proper results. Since I did not actively modify anything, Im mystified why things went through after I ran uniq on the command line. Thanks, Bhiksha On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > Perhaps someone else running Win98 will be able to confirm or deny > the problems you're seeing. I'm guessing that others will only be > able to 'deny'. As mentioned, BSOD is an O/S issue/bug, which means > it's at least difficult to resolve in application software and is > certainly much better resolved in the O/S itself (or quite possibly > software drivers). Certainly in the case that the problem is caused > by drivers (and AV software uses these too), the problem software is > not necessarily installed on a 'typical' Win 98 machine, which is why > I said I expect others won't be able to confirm your results. I'd > highly recommend following Igor's suggestions. The fact that you > can't get cygcheck to run correctly for you again makes me highly > suspicious that something on your system other than Cygwin is actually > causing your problem. In my opinion, you're more likely to find the > source of your problem by looking outside of Cygwin. > > > > Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX > > > At 06:34 PM 1/12/2003, Bhiksha Raj wrote: > >Hi, > > > >First I must apologize for my multiple posts earlier. > >I wasnt sure if the first one had gone through, since I never > >got a copy myself. So I figured Id messed up and posted again. > > > >Anyway, > >the problem (as I mentioned earlier) is that on my windows 98 > >machine, with the latest cygwin, I get a blue screen of death > >when I try to run "configure --disable-shared" on guile-1.4.1. > >(Im using 1.4.1 because Im tyring to compile TeXmacs). > > > >Ive since dug around a bit, crashed my machine a hunded times, > >and collected logs. I found that the configure script dies > >on line 4791, at a line that goes > >"if sort conftest.nm|uniq > conftest.ntM;then" > > > >I get an empty conftest.nmT and the machine dies. > >I tried running the same command from command line. The first time > >I ran it, my cygwin window froze (although my machine didnt die), > >but thereafter Ive been able to run it from command line. > >However, running the configure script kills the machine at the > >uniq again. > > > >Im attaching the configure script, the config.log, and the > >conftest.nm files (the conftest.nmT file I get is empty). > >I hope this is not bad practice, but I figure they would help > >find the problem. > >The tail of the config.log file should indicate where exactly > >my machine dies (every time!). > >Also, as per Igor Pechtchanski's suggestion, I ran a cygcheck -s -v -r and > >am attaching the output. > > > >Curiously, cygcheck -s -v -r gave me output the first time I > >ran it. Afterwards, running the command simply gives me no output > >at all - it simply runs silently and comes back. Im not sure why > >this is so - I was pretty sure it was supposed to repeat the > >information everytime I ran it. I hope this doesnt indicate a > >bug with my setup. > > > >Many thanks for any and all help in this issue. > > > >Regards, > >Bhiksha > >bhiksha AT merl DOT com > > > > > >On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:40:48AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Bhiksha Raj wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > > > I hope this is not the wrong forum for this: > > > > > > > > > > Im trying to install TeXmacs on my win98+cygwin laptop. > > > > > First I installed the binaries for guile from the cygwin setup > > > > > (I have XFree and Tex and all associated libs already) > > > > > downloaded TeXmacs sources, ran ./configure and then > > > > > gave a "make". > > > > > I got the blue screen of death (BSD). > > > > > After iterating through several BSDs, I hunted on the web > > > > > and found a site that said that static linkages were a problem with > > > > > the latest guile and that I must install guile 1.4.1. So I uninstalled > > > > > guile, > > > > > downloaded the sources for guile 1.4.1, untarred them and > > > > > ran > > > > > ./configure --disable-shared > > > > > > > > > > It runs through several checks, but never completes - insted it > > > > > gives me at some point it simply gives me the blue screen of death. > > > > > This time around Im not even getting past configure. > > > > > > > > > > Im not sure what to do now. > > > > > Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > Much thanks > > > > > Bhiksha > > > > > bhiksha AT merl DOT com > > > > > > > > Bhiksha, > > > > > > > > This is a forum for all problems with Cygwin, so your question fits in > > > > nicely. To answer it, Cygwin never *causes* a BSOD. It may expose or > > > > trigger a bug in Windows or some process running with system privileges > > > > (antivirus programs have been blamed a lot), but Cygwin itself doesn't > > > > have enough access to the low-level OS to be able to cause a BSOD. > > > > > > > > Try turning off your antivirus program(s) and see if it makes the BSOD go > > > > away. Another possibility is firewall or VPN software. The output of > > > > 'cygcheck -s -v -r' as a non-inline uncompressed text *attachment* > > > > wouldn't hurt, either (as indicated in ). > > > > Igor > > > > P.S. I'm sure you'll get more and better responses on Monday. > > > > > > Whoops! Fingers striving to be independent from the brain... Make the > > > above link (also at the bottom of every > > > message). > > > Igor > > > -- > > > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > > > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > > > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > > > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > > > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > > > > > Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! > > > -- /usr/games/fortune > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ##### > ##### > ##### > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ##### > ##### > ##### > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > ################################################################# > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/