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Re: [Fwd: Blue screen when running installation *.sh]


On 01/05/2010 09:29 AM, Paul Keusemann wrote:
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:03:13PM -0000, tim@lorien.demon.co.uk wrote:
I have previously used Cygwin 1.5 successfully, but thought I should
report a possible issue with the newer 1.7.1 version.

My XP workstation blue screens reliably when doing the final steps of the
Cygwin 1.7.1 installation somewhere in the /etc/postinstall/*.sh scripts.
The blue screen indicates the problem is with ibmfilter.sys and upon
[snip]

I have run into the same problem. Output of cygcheck.out is attached.

Same driver problem? If so, the solution is to get the updated driver that fixes the bug in the driver.

In general, Cygwin can't make workarounds for all the bugs in all the drivers
that are out there. On occasion, it *may* make sense for Cygwin to workaround
Windows kernel bugs, since these could affect everyone, not just those who
have this or that buggy driver. But really, even in this case, the best solution
is to fix it at the source. Otherwise, the bug will just bite you again when you
do some other operation with some other app.


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