2010/1/5 Paul Keusemann: >> I have previously used Cygwin 1.5 successfully, but thought I should >> report a possible issue with the newer 1.7.1 version. >> >> My XP workstation blue screens reliably when doing the final steps of the >> Cygwin 1.7.1 installation somewhere in the /etc/postinstall/*.sh scripts. >> The blue screen indicates the problem is with ibmfilter.sys and upon > [snip] > > I have run into the same problem. Output of cygcheck.out is attached.
Please report this to the vendor of 'ibmfilter.sys' instead. A blue screen indicates a kernel-level problem, whereas Cygwin works at application level, and nothing that an application does should be able to crash the kernel. Since the actual Windows kernel is generally rather solid, the suspicion falls on third-party drivers, and it is not reasonable to expect Cygwin to work around bugs in those. As Greg points out, Google results look like 'ibmfilter.sys' is the very definition of crapware. Try uninstalling it if possible. Andy -- 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
