Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

Doug Henderson djndnbvg@gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 03:21:00 GMT 2019


On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 19:01, Jerry Baker via cygwin <> wrote:
>
> On 2/26/2019 5:50 PM, Jerry Baker via cygwin wrote:
> > Glad to. Please let me know what evidence will suffice to prove that.
> >
> > If it is my system our organization is going to have bigger issues.
> > There are about 3,700 workstations with this machine image just in this
> > building.
>
> Problem machine is an Intel i7 system with 16GB RAM. Ironically, the
> same Windows 7 on an old AMD Athlon X2 system with 4GB of RAM does not
> exhibit the issue at all.
>
> Trying to think of what could make 2.11.x work and 3.0.1 fail on the i7
> system. The only difference I can think of is that the i7 system is a
> member of a domain.

There is one more place you could have a problem. It does not seem
likely, but maybe you have a bad download cache area.

When you run setup, on the fourth panel, where it asks for the Local
Package Directory, you could try deleting that directory. (It must not
be the same as your cygwin root from the previous panel).

The state of mirrors changes over time. Which mirror(s) are you using
(selected on the 6th panel)? I have successfully used
http://mirrors.kernel.org for many years. It's not so important to
pick a local mirror as it used to be, so I go for reliability (and fat
pipes), rather than distance to the mirror. (I have a little program
that times the download of the setup data file from each mirror.)

BTW, what is your DEP setting? Control Panel -> Advanced system
settings -> advanced tab -> Performance Settings -> Data Execution
Prevention tab. I am using the top setting (Turn on DEP for essential
Windows programs and services only) rather than (Turn on DEP for all
programs ad services except those I select). I'm not sure how Address
Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) is managed on Windows 7, but I think
cygwin exes and dlls get special handling.

HTH
Doug

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