Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <009101c2f3ea$5511ec50$5300a8c0@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Robert Collins" Cc: References: <1048679085.9951.11.camel@localhost> <01b601c2f3ab$d9caa9d0$0a00010a@unsane.co.uk> <1048714873.9946.37.camel@localhost> <001501c2f3e4$659e9560$5300a8c0@pomello> <3E8227E0.2060808@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:52:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Robert Collins wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Robert Collins wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: >>> >>>> Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to >>>> upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . >>>> on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated >>>> perfectly. I tried running a few more times to reproduce the crash and >>>> on average about one in 5 times (very rough average) it crashed.(see >>>> attached drwatson crashlog) for log of 2 of these crashes. >> >> >> I'm getting this too - but only on my desktop - not my laptop. >> >> Crash frequency is only 1 in 20, as well. >> >> >>> Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. >>> >>> At what point does it crash? >> >> >> Before the splash page appears. > > Ah. Can you reproduce it under gdb? If not, can you generate the line > numbers from the addresses in the backtrace (hint: fire up gdb, load the > .exe that you used to provoke the problem, and then > list *0x000223344 ) No, can't reproduce inside gdb. The address of the crash is in the system DLL area. I will download Dr. MinGW, and try to get a backtrace that way. I suggest relocating this thread to cygwin-apps. I will post my next message there, unless told otherwise. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/