Re: BSOD on cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> 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.

Whoops!  Fingers striving to be independent from the brain...  Make the
above link <http://cygwin.com/bugs.html> (also at the bottom of every
message).
	Igor
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