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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

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