Cygwin 1.5.22 - everything crashes, windows exception

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Paul Murphy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have recently installed cygwin, and during the installation received a
> series of crashes for "bash.exe" - standard Windows XP exception errors.
> 
> However, all the files were copied to i:\dev\cygwin, and if I attempt to
> carry out any command in that directory, I receive the same error - at
> least for any command I have tried.  Below is the cygcheck, however
> please note that id.exe crashed with the same error, so some of it may
> be missing.
> 
> I have tried running with Avast AV off, and with Outpost firewall off,
> and I have tried just copying the following files to c:\cygwin to see if
> a more standard dir location would help:
> 
> 07/12/2006  01:17           484,352 bash.exe
> 23/10/2006  10:44           999,424 cygiconv-2.dll
> 23/10/2006  11:23            31,744 cygintl-8.dll
> 15/11/2006  18:21           242,688 cygncurses-8.dll
> 16/12/2006  10:50           157,696 cygreadline6.dll
> 14/11/2006  03:48         1,872,347 cygwin1.dll
> 
> However, I got the same error.  I did a search for any other cygwin
> dlls, and there were some applications that had their own installed, off
> the path, and in their own folders.  They shouldn't have made a
> difference, but I deleted them anyway.  It didn't help.
> 
> The XP installation is relatively new - I rebuilt it recently, and the
> previous build didn't have any issues with cygwin, and this build is
> essentially the same in any respect that I can think would make a
> difference.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can troubleshoot this?


I believe Outpost has been implicated before when these kinds of problems
pop up.  Not sure about Avast.  You can check the email archives for details.
If these are recent changes (or at least different than the last time
when you didn't have these problems), you can uninstall them and try again.
Turning them off is not generally enough because of changes these kinds of
programs make in the network stack when they are installed.


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