On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:55:45PM -0700, Kevin Layer wrote: >I'm going to start a new thread, since I don't want the previous >thread subject to make people miss it. > >Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> On 03/22/2011 06:24 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: >>> > This is on Windows 7 64-bit. >>> > >>> > The crash at the end left an index.lock file. >>> > >>> > Please let me know what I can do to help track down the problem. >>> >>> It's already tracked down - it's a bug in Microsoft's winmm.dll, and the >>> latest snapshot cygwin1.dll works around it by avoiding that buggy dll. > >I'm using the 3/23/11 snapshot and I just got another crash, which >looks the same: > > 0 [main] git-merge-recursive 4784 > C:\cygwin\lib\git-core\git-merge-recursive.exe: *** fatal error - unable to > load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error 487 > >>> Kevin, can you please provide the output of 'uname -a'? > >CYGWIN_NT-5.2-WOW64 hobart128 1.7.9s(0.236/5/3) 20110323 01:32:07 i686 Cygwin
Thanks Chris Sutcliffe for asking for this output. Kevin, are you running Windows XP 64? That's what the above implies. 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
