Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> I'm running latest Cygwin under Windows XP Pro (SP2, with all updates). 
>  I installed all the Singular packages via Cygwin Setup.
> 
> After I start cygwin with its bash shell, command
> 
>   Singular
> 
> gives error:
> 
>   Singular " signal 11 (v: 3001/2005111410):
>   Segment fault/Bus error occurred (r:1136744764)
>   Please inform the authors
>   trying to restart...
> 
> (The number after "r:" changes depending on what else is running in 
> windows.)  But Cygwin never recovers, and it freezes.
> 
> At first I tried uninstalling Singular, downloading the Singular 
> packages again, and re-installing; same error.  I completely uninstalled 
> Cygwin, downloaded Cygwin again including the Singular packages, and 
> re-installed.  Same error.
> 
> On the other hand, if I go to the subdirectory lib\Singular of the main 
> cygwin directory and double-click Singular.exe, then Singular does run, 
> in a DOS command prompt window (although I see message "cannot open 
> `standard.lib'".
> 
> So the bug seems to be somewhere in the interface between Singular and 
> cygwin.  Any ideas of how to proceed.  (I did report this bug on the 
> Singular web site a couple days ago but have had no response.)


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