bash.exe crash

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Wed Mar 26 21:08:33 GMT 2025



Am 25.03.2025 um 20:22 schrieb David via Cygwin:
> Bash.exe is crashing on fairly simple commands. For example,
> declare -r XXX=$(export)
Works for me. Maybe your export list ist too long? What's the unwrapped
output of `export` for you?

>
> There is no error message, bash.exe simply terminates. I am not able
> to build bash from source code because that process ultimately depends
> on bash itself.
>
> My environment is a Windows 11 virtual machine provided by Parallels
> which in turn executes on an Intel x86 iMac (apple) computer.
>
> Cygwin was working nicely for me for decades. I got into this (bad)
> state as follows.
>
> I upgraded my virtual machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Cygwin
> continued to work nicely.
>
> I updated cygwin itself via the usual setup-x86_64.exe program. The
> problem began.
>
> Reinstalling cygwin from scratch did not solve the problem.
>
> Unsurprisingly, setup-x86_64.exe always posts error messages on
> completion:
>
> Package: 0/Perpetual
>     0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code -1073741819
>     0p_update-info-dir.dash exit code -1073741819
> Package: _/Unknown package
>     base-files-mketc.sh exit code -1073741819
>     base-files-profile.sh exit code -1073741819
>     ca-certificates.sh exit code 139
>     libsasl2_3.sh exit code -1073741819
> Package: z/Perpetual
>     zp_fontconfig_dtd.dash exit code -1073741819
>
> Any suggestions for further investigation?
>



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