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Re: perl.exe: fatal error on Vista


On 8/15/08, hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/08, Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote:
>
> > 2008/8/14 hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com>:
>  >  > On 8/14/08, Reini Urban <feed-for-spammers> wrote:
>  >
>  >  See http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
>  >
>  >  >> Tim McDaniel schrieb:
>  >
>  > >> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, hce <feeds-the-spammers> wrote:
>  >  >> > > On 8/13/08, Reini Urban <feed-for-spammers> wrote:
>  >  >> > > >  I would try rebase with -v (verbose) and also tie it to a log file.
>  >  >> > > >  $ rebaseall -v | tie rebaseall.log
>  >  >> > >
>  >  >> > > There is no tie command
>  >  >> > >
>  >  >> >
>  >  >> > Reini must have meant the "tee" command.  It's intended to be a
>  >  >> > T-joint, metaphorically: it copies all its input to the filename
>  >  >> > argument and also to its standard output.  It's most commonly used to
>  >  >> > saving output into a log file while also monitoring it as it is
>  >  >> > generated, as intended here.
>  >  >> >
>  >  >>
>  >  >>  Sorry. tee is what I meant of course.
>  >  >>  I'm obviously doing too much perl tie'ng lately.
>  >  >>
>  >  >>  The error is most likely a running cygwin service.
>  >  >>  But since cygcheck was run from cmd.exe, not from bash, and
>  >  >> C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin not in the path we cannot tell for sure.
>  >  >>
>  >  >>  For the disturbing cygcheck message "Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet
>  >  >> supported!) Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1" only Corinna can tell.
>  >  >>  AFAIK it should work ok.
>  >  >>  But I haven't tested it on Vista, as I have no Vista nowhere.
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks all responses. I can ensure you there were only two processes
>  >  > ps and ash as I reboot the machine before doing ash rebaseall. Anyway,
>  >  > I've tried again to call rebaseall | tee rebaseall.log, then run
>  >  > cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.log in DOS terminal. Please see attached
>  >  > all files.
>  >
>  >
>  > Don't use tee as Dave explained.
>  >  You will miss the two tee.exe dependent dll's then: cygintl-8.dll and
>  >  cygiconv-2.dll
>  >
>  >  Are there any cygwin services? I see none, but rebaseall complains.
>  >  Can you post the output of the process test within ash please.
>  >  Before you did it with cmd.exe
>  >
>  >  > C:\Cygwin\Tools\bin\ash
>  >  $ ./grep -E -i -v '/ash(.exe)?$' /proc/[0-9]*/exename
>
>
> /proc/5656/exename:/usr/bin/bash.exe
>
>  Why it cames bash.exe?
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  >  > Will the Vista a problem as you mentioned above?
>  >  > Windows Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1
>  >
>  >
>  > Not for perl and fork, but for running rebaseall probably.
>  >  And for the perl rebase baselevel I provided in the perl package.
>  >  Vista dll's seem to occupy much more space than I tought.
>  >
>  >  Can someone with Vista please try a rebaseall? I'd need the
>  >  last base address then, that I can prepare better rebased perl dll's.
>  >
>  >  As workaround please try the following within bash. But I (and Jason)
>  >  really want to know why this this simple grep test fails for you.
>  >
>  >  # For perl I rebased from 0x50000000 upwards.
>  >  # Normally it goes for all cygwin dlls from 0x70000000 downwards.
>  >  # Since we have no Vista result what is the last base, maybe its
>  >  # already below 0x50000000 for some conflicting dll, we try it lower
>  >  # And I don't know how far upwards the Vista dll go.
>  >
>  >  echo /bin/cygperl5_10.dll > /tmp/rebase.lst
>  >  find /usr/lib/perl5 -name \*.dll >> /tmp/rebase.lst
>  >  rebase -v -b 0x480000000 -o 0x10000 -T /tmp/rebase.lst
>
>
> I did above process, now the perl.exe cannot start in my cygwin
>  terminal when I tried ./brootstrap again. It pop up an error message
>  "perl.exe has stopped"
>
>  Thanks Reini.

Hi Reini,

Now the perl.exe is really cooked. Could you please tell me how can I
get it back, reverse above implementation?


>
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>  >
>  > Reini Urban
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