1.5.21-1 - Crash on anything using cygwin1.dll

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
> 1.5.21-1 - Crash on anything using cygwin1.dll
> 
> 
> Havent used Cygwin in a while, and then today I was trying to rm' a dir
> when I get this handy message:
> 
> ===
> 5 [main] rm 5852 dll_crt0_1: internal error: couldn't determine location
> of thread function on stack.  Expect signal problems.
> ===
> 
> Never saw that one before, so I try to open up the cygwin shell (which
> is bash).  Upon (attempting) to launch the shell with cygwin.bat, I get
> a crash.
> 
> ===
> AppName: bash.exe	 AppVer: 0.0.0.0	 ModName: cygwin1.dll
> ModVer: 1005.21.0.0	 Offset: 0000365f
> ===
> 
> So I start reading the page on reporting bugs, and I see about cygcheck,
> so I decide to run that.  I notice it says: "If you can't run cygcheck
> for some reason (and why shouldn't you be able to? cygcheck is just a
> standard windows program which does not use the cygwin dll)"
> 
> Well, I guess I'm not so lucky, it runs for a bit, then I get this
> handy-dandy crasher:
> 
> ===
> AppName: cygcheck.exe	 AppVer: 0.0.0.0	 ModName: cygwin1.dll
> ModVer: 1005.21.0.0	 Offset: 0000365f
> ===


'cygcheck' doesn't use 'cygwin1.dll' so I'm not sure that you have the
right info here.


> -and-
> 
> ===
> AppName: id.exe	 AppVer: 0.0.0.0	 ModName: cygwin1.dll
> ModVer: 1005.21.0.0	 Offset: 0000365f
> ===


'id' on the other hand does.


> Hurm, detecting a reoccuring pattern here.


Me too.


> 
> So I completely uninstalled cygwin and tried reinstalling it.  It was
> fine till it got to the post-install scripts which gave me yet another:
> 
> ===
> AppName: bash.exe	 AppVer: 0.0.0.0	 ModName: cygwin1.dll
> ModVer: 1005.21.0.0	 Offset: 0000365f
> ===


Sounds to me a little like you have another copy of 'cygwin1.dll' on your
system that something is running.  Try searching for 'cygwin1.dll's


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