X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:40:26 -0700 From: "George Reilly" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: git-svn: perl child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed In-Reply-To: <6910a60810311123n42274e66j971edfccbd1e2b3f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <490B27F4 DOT 2090806 AT byu DOT net> <6910a60810311123n42274e66j971edfccbd1e2b3f AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 2008/10/31 Reini Urban > 2008/10/31 Eric Blake: > > According to George Reilly on 10/30/2008 11:07 PM: > >> I ran "ash rebaseall -v", which worked once I renamed cyglsa64.dll to > >> a different extension. > >> > >> "git init" works, as does "git status" and "git svn help". But "git > >> svn init" spews (slowly) > >> > >> $ git svn init > >> 4 [main] perl 5624 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x6FEB60 > >> 00..0x6FEB6080, done 0, windows pid 5624, Win32 error 487 > > > > I maintain git, but have no experience with git-svn (as I choose not to > > use svn). It seems like 'git svn help' works because it doesn't load the > > full perl modules in use by the bulk of the git svn command; the failure > > seems to be that when it is finally time for perl to load additional > > modules, then fork, that the forked copy is unable to reproduce the same > > memory layout as the parent process, rendering the additional dlls and > > hence the overall process dead. This is exactly the problem that rebasing > > is supposed to help, but since you've already tried rebasing, I have no > > idea what else to try. Me neither. I'm curious. Why don't you build Cygwin DLLs with explicit base addresses? Or why doesn't Cygwin setup automatically (offer to) do a rebaseall? > And I maintain perl. > Checkout http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > and google for similar problems: antivir, duplicate cygwin dll's. I already did. That's why I mentioned the lack of antivirus on my machine, looking at the list of DLLs loaded in the failing Perl process, etc. -- /George V. Reilly george AT reilly DOT org http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- 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/