[1.7] "C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load shell32, Win32 error 487"

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/01/2009 08:37 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
> I have a problem with git, which only seems to occur with the mesa
> repository
> (which is very large, which may be something to do with the problem). I am
> able to work with all the other X.Org repositories without problems.
>
> Here's a short script which demonstrates the problem for me:
>
> git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
> # repository is large, this may take some time
> cd mesa
> git checkout -f -b local 811aa02c7a0f4804189a8978395f07d27fb726ec
> touch blah
> git add blah
> git commit -m "blah"
> git checkout -f master
>
> fails with
> 2 [main] git 3624 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not
> load shell32, Win32 error 487
> Hangup
>
> # to repeat the failure
> rm .git/index.lock
> git checkout -f master
>
> I had a brief look at the relevant part of the cygwin source but I'm
> baffled as to how this could be happening. Suggestions on how to debug
> this and/or confirmations that it can reproduced appreciated.

The two most common causes of this are:

   1. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>
   2. DLL load collisions.

(1) can be cured by removing the BLODA.  (2) is typically cured with rebaseall.
Been there, done that?

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