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Date:  Fri, 26 May 2006 15:35:08 -0400
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"Robert Pendell" <shinji257 AT uplink DOT net> wrote in message 
news:e30cv7$ul2$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org...
> Jennifer Smith wrote:
>> I tried to install cygwin on the Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5308), here
>> are the problems I've run into:
>> 1) During package install bash seems to crash.
>> I get this dialog from windows:
>> Please close bash.exe
>> A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will
>> notify you if a solution is available.
>>
>> This occurs (it appears) once per package.
>>
>> 2) After install tools crash. About one in three times I run ls in
>> /usr/bin I get:
>>
>> [foo AT bar /usr/bin]$ ls
>>      6 [main] ? (4596) C:\cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe: *** fatal error -
>> couldn't alloc
>> ate heap, Win32 error 0, base 0x800000, top 0x89B000, reserve_size
[snip snip]
>>
>
> I don't see it likely that cygwin will be actively supported on Vista
> until that OS is officially released or there is at minimum a public beta.
>
> Also last I checked beta 2 hasn't come out.  They were still releasing
> refresh releases for Beta 1.

I just wanted to confirm that Beta 2 has been released, and it seems that 
the problems still happen.

I thought #2 was gone, but it happens only every now and then - run ls a 
half a dozen times after setting up my path, and it'll cause the error.

I'm sure if anyone was interested in following up on this, MS would be happy 
to sign them up for the beta program.  I've filed a couple bugs under app 
compat with Microsoft on this.

-- 
Ryan Watkins
ryan AT ryanwatkins DOT net 



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