X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F5885FE.3050109@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:12:14 +0100 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Unable to start bash fatal error References: <4F588088 DOT 9090800 AT chess DOT nl> In-Reply-To: <4F588088.9090800@chess.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 3/8/2012 10:48 AM, Diederik Faber wrote: > Hi all, > > My cygwin installation was running quite happily, until I updated this > morning (march 8). After installation bash (now version 4.1.10-4) won't > launch anymore. > When starting it from a DOS box, it gives this output: > > D:\cygwin>bash > 0 [main] bash 8168 D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - add_item > ("\??\D:\cygwin", "/", ...) failed, errno 1 > Stack trace: > Frame Function Args > 00228908 6102FA3B (00228908, 00000000, 00000000, 7C9101DB) > 00228BF8 6102FA3B (6119BD20, 00008000, 00000000, 6119DB4F) > 00229C28 61005F7C (611D7EA0, 00229C54, 00000000, 60FE000C) > 00229C48 61005FB8 (611D7EA0, 0022BC70, 00000001, 0003000A) > 0022CC88 6108FAE4 (60FE000C, 20000347, 0022CD58, 61081840) > 0022CCB8 610D169F (48C98787, 01CCFD0F, 004657E0, 61272974) > 1180 [main] bash 8168 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION > > > My cygwin installation resides in D:\cygwin, but the add_item parameter > "\??\D:\cygwin" looks a bit suspicious. > I've located its value in the registry under > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations\. > If I manually change the value to "D:\cygwin" and then start bash, it > still gives the same problem. Better yet, the \??\ has returned into the > registry key. Is this intended behavior? > > Similar output is also generated when running cygcheck, so I couldn't > attach its output. > > Does anybody have a similar problem or maybe an idea on how to fix this? > > Thanks, > Diederik try a rebase http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures If does not work, please follow > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Regards -- 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