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Re: BSOD on cygwin


On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Bhiksha Raj wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I hope this is not the wrong forum for this:
>
> Im trying to install TeXmacs on my win98+cygwin laptop.
> First I installed the binaries for guile from the cygwin setup
> (I have XFree and Tex and all associated libs already)
> downloaded TeXmacs sources, ran ./configure and then
> gave a "make".
> I got  the blue screen of death (BSD).
> After iterating through several BSDs, I hunted on the web
> and found a site that said that static linkages were a problem with
> the latest guile and that I must install guile 1.4.1. So I uninstalled
> guile,
> downloaded the sources for guile 1.4.1, untarred them and
> ran
> ./configure --disable-shared
>
> It runs through several checks, but never completes - insted it
> gives me at some point it simply gives me the blue screen of death.
> This time around Im not even getting past configure.
>
> Im not sure what to do now.
> Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Much thanks
> Bhiksha
> bhiksha@merl.com

Bhiksha,

This is a forum for all problems with Cygwin, so your question fits in
nicely.  To answer it, Cygwin never *causes* a BSOD.  It may expose or
trigger a bug in Windows or some process running with system privileges
(antivirus programs have been blamed a lot), but Cygwin itself doesn't
have enough access to the low-level OS to be able to cause a BSOD.

Try turning off your antivirus program(s) and see if it makes the BSOD go
away.  Another possibility is firewall or VPN software.  The output of
'cygcheck -s -v -r' as a non-inline uncompressed text *attachment*
wouldn't hurt, either (as indicated in <http://cygwin.com/bugs/>).
	Igor
P.S. I'm sure you'll get more and better responses on Monday.
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