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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:12:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
cc: Cary Jamison <Cary_Jamison AT Symantec DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bash is crashing
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Cary Jamison on 8/4/2005 11:07 AM:
> > Anyway, here are some parts you may care about :
> >
> > cygwin dll 1.5.18
> > bash 3.0-8
> ...
> > Not Found: sh
> > Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
>
> Not good.  You need /bin/sh to do lots of things in cygwin.  Rerun
> setup.exe, and that should help.  Perhaps the core dump is happening
> when something is trying to invoke /bin/sh, and not reacting nicely?
>
> > The version of cygrunsrv installed is too old to dump service info.
> > cygrunsrv            1.10-1
>
> Not your problem, but probably a bug in setup.exe, since cygrunsrv 1.10 is
> indeed new enough to dump service info.

If setup has to replace an in-use file, it schedules its replacement after
reboot, but still marks the package installation as successful.  This
leaves the old executable in-place until reboot.

The above is likely an indication that Cary updated cygrunsrv while some
service was running, and didn't reboot afterwards.  So, the current
cygrunsrv *executable* is indeed too old to dump service info, even though
the newer package is installed.  Rebooting should help here.

> > bash                 3.0-8
>
> bash is at 3.0-11 now, in case that helps.

I'm not sure if the missing /bin/sh could be attributed to the same
problem, BTW.
	Igor
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