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Re: nearly all postinstall scripts segfaulting in 64bit Windows (XP + Vista)
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:51:03PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> I'm attempting to setup a build environment, which happens to require
>>>> cygwin. I ran into no problems getting this up with 32bit Windows XP,
>>>> however for both WINXP64 and VISTA64, the cygwin installation blows up
>>>> badly while running all of the postinstall scripts (in
>>>> /etc/postinstall). Nearly all of them are segfaulting.
>>>>
>>>> For example, if I attempt to run /etc/postinstall/bash.sh manually, it
>>>> churns for a few seconds, and then dies with the following output:
>>>> 11 [main] bash 1644 +_cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping
>>>> state ( probably a corrupted stack)
>>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>>
>>>> The only potential oddity in this equation is that my Windows (both 32
>>>> & 64bit) installations are inside of Xen (running on a Linux system).
>>>>
>>>> I'm at a complete loss on how to debug this at this point. Any and
>>>> all suggestions are gratefully accepted.
>>> No suggestions? Anyway, it also looks like I'm getting a stackdump
>>> every dump this segfaults which includs the following:
>>> ######
>>> Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=7D61C95D
>>> eax=00000000 ebx=0022C4D8 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=FFFFFFFE
>>> edi=FFFFFFFF
>>> ebp=0022C4A8 esp=0022C45C program=C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe, pid 924, thread
>>> main
>>> cs=0023 ds=002B es=002B fs=0053 gs=002B ss=002B
>>> Stack trace:
>>> Frame Function Args
>>> 0022C4A8 7D61C95D (00000274, FFFFFFFE, 0022C4D8, 00000001)
>>> 61169E30 6101CDEB (0000000F, 80100000, 00000274, 00000000)
>>> 6113F9B8 0000044F (610FE560, 610FE530, 610FDB40, 6101E4A0)
>>> 610FE950 610FDB70 (90909090, 90909090, 90C3C031, 90909090)
>>> 11 [main] bash 924 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while
>>> dumping state (probably corrupted stack)
>>> ######
>>
>> There's been one other report, that I recall, of problems running
>> Cygwin under Xen but AFAIK, no one on the list who's digging into
>> the code is using it (or at least seeing the problem when using it.)
>> Whatever the problem is, it seems specific to Xen since other VMs run
>> Cygwin fine. Certainly the stack suggests that the crash happens in
>> bash and not the Cygwin DLL, though I'm not sure that this says much.
>> ;-)
>
> Actually the stack suggests that it is happening in a system call
> (0x7D61C95D) from the cygwin DLL (0xc101CDEB) but your observations and
> conclusions are still the same. I'm not aware of anyone actively
> investigating Xen problems.
This looks very similar to my problem (except that disabling TS
doesn't seem to help):
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-cygwin-bash-crashes-on-Win-Serv-2008-td20131536.html
*sigh*
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