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Subject: Re: 1.7.7 - OpenSSH Fatal Error 1114
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Hi John,

On Dec  1 17:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  1 07:13, John Fano wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I have cygwin 1.7.7 installed on a win2003 r2 file server.  
> > [...]
> > 4: '      0 [main] sshd 1388 C:\\cygwin\\usr\\sbin\\sshd.exe: ***
> > fatal error - could not load u, Win32 error 1114\nStack
>                               ^^^
>     It's probably safe to assume that this is user32.dll.
>     There's a glitch in the debug output in 1.7.7.
> 			      
> The difference between Cygwin 1.7.5 and 1.7.7 is just that 1.7.7 loads
> the dynamically loaded system DLLs using the full path, while 1.7.5
> loads them using just the name, for instance:
> 
>   1.7.5:   LoadLibrary ("user32.dll")
>   1.7.7:   LoadLibrary ("C:\\Windows\\System32\\user32.dll")
> 
> The reason we're doing that is
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspx
> 
> So far we have not the faintest idea why loading the system DLLs using
> the full path fails in some scenarios, while using just the DLL name
> works.
> 
> There's some kind of a workaround in the current development sources,
> but apparently this solution also doesn't provide a 100% success rate.

Can you please test the latest developer snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/?  It contains yet another patch which is
supposed to workaround this problem.  It would be nice if you could
report back quickly.


Thanks in advance,
Corinna

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