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Subject: Re: "/usr/bin/clear" crash
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:16:13 -0400
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Nuno Treez wrote:
> $ clear
>      10 [main] clear 4440 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state
> (probably corrupted stack)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

From your cygcheck output, I see that you have:

> ncurses                    5.7-2

This is a Known problem with that version of ncurses.  Please upgrade to
the current version for cygwin-1.5.x,  which is ncurses-5.7-5.

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Chuck

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