Mapping of Windows registry not complete

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/27/2011 12:52 PM, Julien wrote:
> Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Christian Franke a écrit :
>> Julien Nabet wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to compile Libreoffice on Windows with Cygwin. For this, I had
>>> to install some softs including Microsoft Visual C++ Express 8.
>>> When I launched configuration part of Libreoffice (so just before
>>> compiling), I noticed that some config elements weren't found.
>>> By taking a look about the cause of this, I saw that Windows registry
>>> mapped by Cygwin located in /proc/registry wasn't complete.
>>> For example I've got :
>>> /proc/registry/HKLM/Software/Microsoft/VC8 (since I'm right now on Linux,
>>> the path is not exactly this one but that's the idea) but nothing in it
>>> whereas I can see with regedit there are keys and subkeys.
>>
>> This key?
>> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VisualStudio/8.0
>>
>> I could not reproduce this. Please provide output of:
>>
>> $ uname -rs
>> $ cd /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft
>> $ stat VisualStudio/8.0
>> $ ls -la VisualStudio/8.0
>>
>> If 'ls' output is actually empty, retry with Cygwin shell running as
>> administrator.
>> (ls /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SAM/SAM should work then).
>>
>> Please note that the Express editions of Visual Studio put some subkeys to
>> a different location:
>> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VCExpress/...
>> A configuration script expecting Express edition might not work with a
>> regular edition and vice versa.
> In fact, I can't test any more since I uninstall Cygwin (registry cleaning +
> cygwin directory) and can't succeed in reinstall it again.
> Each time I try, I've got a Windows error blue screen (BSoD).
> Of course, I know there could be interaction with other softs, so i
> deactivated Avast for example and use no software meanwhile (I thought it
> could be the fact to use Firefox during install for example) but no way.
> I appreciate your help but now I don't want to waste some time to guess the
> cause of this BSoD so I return to Linux.
>
> Thank you for having answered.

A BSoD is caused by bad drivers or some other kernel problem.  You can
check the first line of the report for the DLL/SYS file that it bombed
in to see if that gives you a clue as to the source of the problem.
Otherwise, try updating Windows or back out any recently added hardware.


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Larry

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