X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D6A9090.2020407@acm.org> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:57:36 -0800 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Please test latest developer snapshot References: <20110217120400 DOT GB29762 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4D683A37 DOT 5060408 AT acm DOT org> <4D6844C8 DOT 7010801 AT acm DOT org> <20110226103549 DOT GB9392 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20110227102053 DOT GA413 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20110227102053.GA413@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 On 2/27/2011 2:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 26 11:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 25 16:09, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> I was able to reproduce this using a clone of the git repository itself: >>> >>> % uname -a >>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 tela 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110221 20:36:00 i686 Cygwin >>> % git clone git://github.com/git/git.git >>> Cloning into git... >>> remote: Counting objects: 134689, done. >>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39672/39672), done. >>> remote: Total 134689 (delta 100250), reused 126970 (delta 93150) >>> Receiving objects: 100% (134689/134689), 28.44 MiB | 621 KiB/s, done. >>> Resolving deltas: 100% (100250/100250), done. >>> % cd git/ >>> % git log >>> 0 [main] git 3088 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487 >> >> Thanks for the report. I can reproduce this under Windows XP but >> not under Windows 7. Stay tuned. > > Please test the latest developer snapshot. It contains a fix which is > supposed to fix the problem. It looks like there's a bug in the winmm > DLL, at least in older versions. I found a workaround which shouldn't > work, but it does. If you're interested in the technical details, > see the thread starting here: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-02/msg00007.html > > If it works for you, and still works for others, I'll release 1.7.8 ASAP. Works here. Thanks for the quick fix! -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth AT acm DOT org meetings, n.: A place where minutes are kept and hours are lost. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple