RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Daniel,

In case it hasn't been made clear, if your system is Windows NT, 2000 or XP 
and it blue-screens, locks up or otherwise exhibits a symptom of a system 
failure, then software at the application level _cannot_ be to blame. Only 
code that executes with hardware privileges (CPU / instruction / kernel 
mode) and / or writable access to system memory areas can cause this sort 
of problem.

Cygwin includes no driver, file system or kernel code and hence cannot be 
responsible for a blue-screen.

You could have hardware problems (CPU, RAM, peripherals or even power 
supply), driver problems or file system problems, but this symptom cannot 
be pinned on Setup.exe or any other Cygwin software.

Likewise, it cannot be the locus of a fix for such a problem. While I 
certainly cannot speak for others who read this list, I doubt anyone is 
going to a) be able to help you much to solve this situation, since it is 
surely idiosyncratic and specific to your system; b) be motivated to do so.

Got it?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 12:12 2002-11-24, Daniel Armbrust wrote:
> You guys sure are fast for a Sunday.  Open source is great : )
>
> I am surprised that I am this unlucky.  Previously, I tried to track
> this problem down, and I thought that I had come across an FAQ that
> referenced cygwin causing Blue Screens, and the answer was basically you
> have bad drivers.  This is why I assumed this was more frequently
> reported.
>
> Anyway,
> Clarifications:
>
> This has happened to me on the initial install, (not all, but most
> packages) and also today, when I downloaded rsync + dependencies and
> other updates since the last time I downloaded (about a months worth) so
> maybe it was around 10 packages.
>
> If there is anything I can do to provide you with more debugging info
> (or if theres any other suggestions you can give me for debugging this
> if it is solely a hardware/driver issues) let me know,
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

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