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Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64
- From: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>
- To: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:39:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64
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- Reply-to: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo dot com>
Apparently not BLODA (plus I'm not running anything on the BLODA list).
Instead, I found that COMSPEC needs to be set in the environment or I get a segfault as shown in my previous email below. I don't know why that is, but I can easily demonstrate it.
----- Original Message -----
> From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 11:59 PM
> Subject: Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64
>
> On 10/17/2014 11:52 PM, John Wiersba wrote:
>> With a 3-week-old (i.e. recent) install of cygwin, which otherwise
> functions well:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 DESKTOP-NAME 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin
>>
>>
>>
>> $ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin cygcheck -s
>> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
>> Current System Time: Fri Oct 17 17:37:27 2014
>> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
>> Path: D:\cygwin\bin
>> D:\cygwin\bin
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>
> it works fine here
> $ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin cygcheck -s
>
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Sat Oct 18 04:49:42 2014
>
> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
>
> Path: E:\cygwin64\bin
> E:\cygwin64\bin
>
> Output from E:\cygwin64\bin\id.exe
> ...
> zlib0 1.2.8-1 OK
>
> also from CMD prompt no issue.
>
>> Also, I notice that when PATH has no :, cygcheck prints bogus information:
>> $ PATH=/bin cygcheck -s
>>
>> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
>> Current System Time: Fri Oct 17 17:38:27 2014
>> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
>> Path: D
>> \cygwin\bin
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>>
>> Running under gdb:
>>
>> $ PATH=/bin gdb cygcheck
> [cut]
>> (gdb) r -s
>> Starting program: /bin/cygcheck -s
>> [New Thread 5492.0x11ec]
>>
>> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
>> Current System Time: Fri Oct 17 17:46:49 2014
>>
>> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
>>
>> Path: D
>> \cygwin\bin
>> [Inferior 1 (process 5492) exited with code 030000000005]
>> (gdb)
>>
>
> BLODA ?
>
>
>>
>> All of this was in preparation for reporting another problem with run.exe
> (which flashes a console window instead of hiding it).
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
>
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