X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4577577F.8040403@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:51:27 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Lots of Vista32 problems References: <45773C4C DOT 2090901 AT pittstate DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <45773C4C.2090901@pittstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Michael J. Wheeler wrote: > OK, I've been working on this problem for several days now and I'm about > ready to give up all together. I'm really hoping someone can help me out. I > used cygwin for years on XP and now that I've moved to Vista, I can't get > anything to work. > > Whenever I try to run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat , it crashes. I have > created a stackdump and put it here: > https://go.pittstate.edu/mjw/cygwin.strace . I was told to rebaseall and > that didn't work. I also tried rebasing to a different address, then back > to the default -- still nothing. > > Next, I was told to try to rebuild the current cygwin package. That fails > on make install every time (collect2.exe). After that, I tried building the > latest snapshot... Now configure fails near the beginning when it's testing > to see if gcc works. The only way I've seen to get around that is to do a > full reinstall.. but that's kind of frustrating waiting for 2 hours to > reinstall everything. > > Basically I'm at my wits end and I really hope somebody can help before I > give up on being able to use cygwin on Vista... > Have you followed the recent threads on Vista? How you tried just using a snapshot? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/