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: <4073CB95.7090404@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:36:21 +0100 From: Andy Rushton Organization: Southampton University User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygheap problems, also on version 1.5.9 (was Re: cygheap problems, 20040326 snapshot) References: <4064BA0C.8000108@fangorn.ca> <6.0.1.1.0.20040327003026.0285fd70@127.0.0.1> <406817BF.6090800@ecs.soton.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact helpdesk@ecs.soton.ac.uk for more information X-ECS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Ford wrote: >On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Andy Rushton wrote: > > >>The really odd thing is that I have another PC at home with the same >>version of XP, same update status and as far as I can tell, the same >>install of Cygwin and I have no problems. >> >> >Are you sure about the "same update status" part? The following would >imply that a "Windows Update" will fix your problem. Could you try it and >report back? > > Good question. Okay, I'm on XP, not 2k as the other correspondent is. Nevertheless I have fallen into the trap of not checking what's *really* happening rather than what MS say is happening. My computer here - the one that was getting the error - is supposed to be on auto-update. That's what the settings say it is. However, I found that a manual update found 5 'critical' (whatever that means) updates that hadn't been installed. Installing them appears to have made the problem go away. Oh, I do so love Windoze. -- Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK "I believe it's very hard to have fun in Iceland without fish being involved in some way." -- Looking for a good place to party (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/