[Chromium-dev] STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error during build

[Cecilia A. <cec...@lu...>]

Hi,

Since it took me ages to find the solution to this problem, I thought I'd
post it here to hopefully prevent others with the same problem from
wasting time. Strictly speaking it's a Windows Server/cygwin problem,
but that was less than obvious to me, trying to build chrome for the first
time, and I wish the solution had been posted on this list (or any other
chromium-related site for that matter).

System: Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2, 32bit

Problem:
The following error occurred when building chrome:

[main] bash 8980 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
[main] bash 8980 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bash.exe.stackdump
Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 35584 returned from 'C:\Windows\SysWow64\cmd.exe'.

Also, execution of chrome\src\third_party\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
produced the following error message:

29 [main] bash 16312 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
5736 [main] bash 16312 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bash.exe.stackdump
29 [main] bash 16312 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
5736 [main] bash 16312 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state (probably corrupted stack)


Cause:
If Terminal Services is installed and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is
turned on for all programs, execution of some cygwin applications,
including bash.exe, fails. See the post
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00429.html
and other posts in the same thread.

Solution:
Switch the DEP setting to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs
and services only". To learn how, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352#5
See the post
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00459.html


Hope this is helpful to someone.

Cecilia