On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: > On 02/07/2011 12:19 PM, marco atzeri wrote: >> >> those scripts are called inside /etc/profile and the execute >> permission is not needed >> >> > > Thanks Marco. I had figured that out eventually as well. They are just > 'sourced'. > > The issue seems to come from the fact that my installation is getting > "Bad address" on certain file accesses. > > And in the this thread it appears to be related to running on 64 bit > hardware even when using 32 bit mode: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00933.html
that error was related to cmd.exe. Are you using it ? If so have you tried mintty ? > > > And as I said we are running Windows 2003 DATACENTER R2 WOW64 as shown > in the cygcheck output I attached to a previous posting. > > So it appears that if this "Bad address" problem was fixed that > apparently there are still some places where it occurs and I'd like to > find out from the Cygwin developers what we can do to work around the > issue or if they could fix the problem. > > > Regards, > Gerry > Regards Marco -- 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
