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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7.8 + 3/18/11 snapshot + git = crash
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On 22 March 2011 21:33, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/22/2011 06:24 PM, Kevin Layer wrote:
>> This is on Windows 7 64-bit.
>>
>> The crash at the end left an index.lock file.
>>
>> Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem.
>
> It's already tracked down - it's a bug in Microsoft's winmm.dll, and the
> latest snapshot cygwin1.dll works around it by avoiding that buggy dll.
>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 1 [main] git-merge-recursive 2864 C:\cygwin\lib\git-core\git=
-merge-recursive.exe: *** fatal error - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\=
winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
>
> The list archives have more details.

Based on Kevin's email subject, I assume he's already running the
latest snapshot.

Kevin, can you please provide the output of 'uname -a'?

Chris

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