Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Reformatted top-post...

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> 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.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Does a recent snapshot make a difference?
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
>>
>> If not, please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at:
>>
>>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
> Thanks for your reply that suggests to try a recent snapshot.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know whether the various, latest "snapshot" files 
> will help, since I haven't a clue which one or ones to download or, once 
> I've downloaded, what to do with it/them!
> 
> I see nothing on the snapshots page (to which the URL you supplied 
> points) about how to use these files.
> 
> I'm a very experience computer user, but I need guidance here!
> 

See the FAQ entry:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots>

This has the proper steps to follow to install a snapshot.

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