X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:50:13 -0700 Received: by 10.220.128.16 with SMTP id i16mr2743155vcs.120.1269913813138; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: 1.7.2 on 2008 SP2: man segfaults + X problems From: Mark McConnell To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 RESOLVED. Windows Server 2008 has Data Execution Prevention (DEP) enabled by default. Apparently there are a number of Cygwin programs that are not compatible DEP. All of the symptoms that I described are related to this. I've turned off DEP for all programs except crucial Windows applications. I would prefer to make exceptions for Cygwin programs only, rather than turning off DEP for all third party applications; but the unix model of many small programs interoperating with one another would seem to make this impractical. I'll investigate that further, but as for the problem I described with my Cygwin installation on Server 2008 SP2, I've resolved it. Thanks for your patience. Mark -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple