Re: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

[Murray Eisenberg <murray at math dot umass dot edu>]

After getting better instructions from Igor Peshansky than are in the 
Cygwin FAQs about installing Cygwin snapshots, I installed the lastest 
Cygwin snapshot.

Unfortunately, this did not fix anything with respect to running 
Singular -- and in particular with respect to running it with Emacs.  I 
just detailed what works and what does not at:

http://singular.mathematik.uni-kl.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1582#1582

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> > I'm running latest Cygwin under Windows XP Pro (SP2, with all 
> > updates).  I installed all the Singular packages via Cygwin Setup.
> >
> > After I start cygwin with its bash shell, command
> >
> >   Singular
> >
> > gives error:
> >
> >   Singular " signal 11 (v: 3001/2005111410):
> >   Segment fault/Bus error occurred (r:1136744764)
> >   Please inform the authors
> >   trying to restart...
> >
> > (The number after "r:" changes depending on what else is running in 
> > windows.)  But Cygwin never recovers, and it freezes.
> >
> > At first I tried uninstalling Singular, downloading the Singular 
> > packages again, and re-installing; same error.  I completely 
> > uninstalled Cygwin, downloaded Cygwin again including the Singular 
> > packages, and re-installed.  Same error.
> >
> > On the other hand, if I go to the subdirectory lib\Singular of the 
> > main cygwin directory and double-click Singular.exe, then Singular 
> > does run, in a DOS command prompt window (although I see message 
> > "cannot open `standard.lib'".
> >
> > So the bug seems to be somewhere in the interface between Singular and 
> > cygwin.  Any ideas of how to proceed.  (I did report this bug on the 
> > Singular web site a couple days ago but have had no response.)
>
>
>
> Does a recent snapshot make a difference?
>
> <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
>
> If not, please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at:
>
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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