Ha Ha! The bug I have been digging into (with my Dell laptop) that I first saw in cygwin also manifests from the Win2000 command prompt, with no involvement by cygwin at all.
Soooooo................ What list do people suggest I go to with this Win 2000 bug? Any suggestions? Here is the WIN script I used, called win_crashme.cmd: echo off pslist | grep Pid :top pslist pslist | grep pslist goto top and here was the command I used to jam Win2000: win_crashme > w1.txt 2>&1 where pslist.exe is from the pstools distribution of Mark Russinovich of www.systeminternals.com, and grep is a free version off the web- The loop ran about 4000 iterations in less than 5 minutes and jammed WIN so well that I took the battery out. The high PID appeared to lead to the jam. The PID did not increase monotonically, just damn close. Here are a few groups of consecutive lines of just the process name and PID (= WINPID): Name Pid pslist 400 pslist 2052 pslist 2888 pslist 1984 pslist 3480 pslist 3552 pslist 3568 pslist 3572 pslist 3584 pslist 3592 pslist 3600 ... pslist 33188 pslist 33196 pslist 2060 pslist 33208 pslist 33216 pslist 33224 pslist 33232 pslist 33240 ... pslist 33440 pslist 33448 pslist 2980 pslist 33460 pslist 33468 pslist 33476 ... pslist 36908 pslist 36916 pslist 36924 process pslist was not found on AC431380 process pslist was not found on AC431380 process pslist was not found on AC431380 process pslist was not found on AC431380 process pslist was not found on AC431380 process pslist was not found on AC431380 The system cannot execute the specified program. It only went down 3 times, but we all know that 3 >> 0. Here is what my system info is: OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 3 Build 2195 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name AC431380 System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation System Model Latitude C600 System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10 GenuineIntel ~1002 Mhz BIOS Version Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A16 Windows Directory C:\WINNT System Directory C:\WINNT\System32 Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 Locale United States User Name ADMIN-US-NE\WESTMWJ Time Zone Eastern Standard Time Total Physical Memory 261,532 KB Available Physical Memory 38,436 KB Total Virtual Memory 892,780 KB Available Virtual Memory 466,012 KB Page File Space 631,248 KB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Any suggestions? I am not the sort to mess with Windows on the machine my employer gave me, so I wonder why things are weird with it. I can not remember even touching the registry until I tried debugging cygwin. Regards, Mike W. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- 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/
