From: Adam Rosi-K. <ad...@ro...> - 2008-11-30 01:54:02
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Cesar Strauss wrote, on 11/29/2008 1:04 PM: > Adam Rosi-Kessel <ad...@ro...> wrote: >> The only thing I've noticed is disabling on-access virus scanning seems >> to slightly reduce the frequency of crashes, but I'm still not able to >> build anything. > > Since MSYS shares much code with Cygwin, perhaps some Cygwin-related > advice could help: > > 1) Please try uninstalling the anti-virus software completely, > sometimes disabling it is not enough. > 2) The following page has some other software that is known to cause problems: > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > 3) Try downloading rebase.exe from > http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/ > Then close all MSYS programs and run from the Command Prompt: > rebase -b 0x30000000 msys-1.0.dll Thanks for the suggestions. I tried both and still no luck. I also tried killing/stopping every process/service that seemed potentially invasive (i.e., everything that was not essential to running the OS) and still get the same result. What's particularly surprising to me is how random the crashes seem to be -- I can run the same make command ten times, and each time get a different crash. It's also surprising that there is no useful debug information coming out -- the stack dump itself doesn't seem enlightening. The only other possible cause I might mention is pointsec, which is the tool for the encrypted hard drive. I don't have any way to disable it and still run my laptop. I wouldn't think that should interfere -- I've never heard of any other application having any issues with pointsec -- but if it is the cause I can't think of a good way to test it. Any other suggestions? Adam |