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Subject: Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1
References: <42506F06 DOT 4040808 AT austin DOT rr DOT com> <4250DC9F DOT 60700 AT ege DOT cc>
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:56:50 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4250DC9F.60700@ege.cc> (Bernhard Ege's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:20:15 +0200")
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Bernhard Ege writes:

> I tried running latex with strace:
>
> $ strace latex
> One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code
>
> And a windows saying:
> Title: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
> ~
> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.

That's odd, comparing it with gdb

> $ gdb latex
> Starting program: /usr/bin/latex.exe
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00451d7e in inflate_fast ()

> I cannot see anyway for me to fix latex myself (config file or
> similar) using the above info :-(

No.  Thanks for the report, I'll prepare a version with debbugging
info to see what's going on.

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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