On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:09:44PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >On 2/25/2011 3:24 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> I realize this report won't be terribly useful, but I did encounter >> a problem with the latest snapshot. I have a local git >> repository. With the snapshot, "git log" produces: >> >> 0 [main] git 4944 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not >> load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487 >> >> This works fine up through the 20100924 snapshot and starts to fail >> on the 20100926 snapshot. >> >> This only occurs on some of my git repositories. I was not able to >> reproduce it using the latest snapshot by just making a simple >> repository, adding a file, then running "git log". >> >> This is on Windows XP Pro in case it matters (32-bit, all patches >> installed). >> >> I wish I could be more helpful and provide a test case to reproduce >> it. > >I was able to reproduce this using a clone of the git repository itself: > >% uname -a >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 tela 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110221 20:36:00 i686 Cygwin >% git clone git://github.com/git/git.git >Cloning into git... >remote: Counting objects: 134689, done. >remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39672/39672), done. >remote: Total 134689 (delta 100250), reused 126970 (delta 93150) >Receiving objects: 100% (134689/134689), 28.44 MiB | 621 KiB/s, done. >Resolving deltas: 100% (100250/100250), done. >% cd git/ >% git log > 0 [main] git 3088 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not > load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487
Just to dot the i's here, could you try the latest snapshot? Corinna and I went back and forth a little on the best way to fix this. The current snapshot has more stringent checking but should still work fine. (Although the fix is still hacky) cgf -- 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