On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:44:12PM -0800, Ian Burrell wrote: >I updated to Cygwin 1.3.15-1 yesterday and since then have crashed >Windows 2000 a few times. I am running Windows 2000 SP3 build 2195. > >I do have Norton Antivirus 2003 installed but some of the crashes >happened when it was disabled. I had trouble with Norton Utilities in >the past and uninstalled an old version when I installed the new >version of NAV a few weeks ago. There haven't been any problems until >I updated cygwin1.dll. > >The crashes happened when: > >1. Killing hung perl process >2. Starting multiple rxvt bash windows > >I looked at the dumps with dumpchk.exe. All the crashes were from >bash.exe process (version 2.05b7), in the ntoskrnl, and the >Kei386EoiHelper function. I have minidump and complete memory dumps if >anyone wants to analyze them.
If bash is doing something to crash your Windows 2000 then there is something wrong with your Windows 2000. That's a given with any modern OS like anything with a Windows NT vintage (but not Windows 95 and its variants of course). User programs should not be able to crash an OS unless you are running as a privileged user, and even then, it's not real likely. Likely candidates for your crash are hard disk problems, either with a bad disk or corrupted disk, memory problems or other hardware problems, a bad driver, your virus checker (disabled doesn't necessarily mean it's not running), or corrupted OS files. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
