Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Eliot Moss
Sounds good. If you're starting from 0x3500 you might be able to go from the end of cygwin1.dll upward. You could also try ldd on BitDefender and see if ti tell you anything about the dlls it loads and where they typically want to go Best -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Ed Gaines
Eliot Moss wrote: Ok, I was wrong about ash (not) using cygwin1.dll. Running ldd on rebase and peflags reveals that they use it too, which pretty much says that they are cygwin apps. Thanks. I was beginning to think I'd lost my mind... However, it also shows that the preferred load address,

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Eliot Moss
Is BitDefender on the BLODA list? It may be wedging itself in, between cygwin and Windows, redoing various Windows system calls -- but in a way that defeats cygwin ... Cheers -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Eliot Moss
Ok, I was wrong about ash (not) using cygwin1.dll. Running ldd on rebase and peflags reveals that they use it too, which pretty much says that they are cygwin apps. However, it also shows that the preferred load address, on my system anyway, for cygwin1.dll is 0x6100. That explains the start

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/5/2009 3:41 PM, Ed Gaines wrote: As before, I searched for open cygwin dlls before and after running rebase. I couldn't find any at all. I tried searching for these dlls DURING the rebase, but unfortunately the rebase command completes before the dll search completes. So even though the dl

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Ed Gaines
Ed Gaines wrote: Any reason I can't run the rebase and peflags commands from with cmd.exe? Are they "pure" windows executables, in other words? I can't stand it. In order to answer my own question cited above, I went back and ran a cmd.exe window as administrator, and then tried to run reb

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-05 Thread Ed Gaines
Eliot Moss wrote: Any progress? Well, I still don't have it working. But I did learn some rather startling things about ash.exe and cygwin1.dll. As always, this will seem overlong. But I've worked in the IT industry for 28 years, and I've learned that it's always the one datum you don't men

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Gaines
Eliot Moss wrote: I should have asked you in my last email: should I have reloaded cygwin prior to attempting to use the steps you prescribed in your response? What does "reloaded" mean? Reinstalled, in other words. Poor choice of words on my part... Best procedure is: - reboot system -

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes REDUX

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Gaines
Alas, I ran the commands as you recommend below, and there is yet no joy here in Mudville. I apologize in advance for the length of this -- I'm ignorant, so I don't know which details I can omit -- but as you'll see when you arrive at the end, the questions I'm asking are in fact quite few and qu

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes

2009-12-04 Thread Ed Gaines
Thanks so much for your response! A few mop-up questions below. Hope you don't mind. Eliot Moss wrote: Dear Ed -- I posted this a couple of days ago under another thread. My apologies. I thought I'd researched this carefully before posting. Should have cast my net a bit wider, I guess. H

Re: Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes

2009-12-04 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear Ed -- I posted this a couple of days ago under another thread. Here is the rebase procedure that works for me: /bin/rebase -d -b 0x6100 -o 0x2 -v -T > rebase.out and /bin/peflags -d0 -v -T > peflags-d.out /bin/peflags -t0 -v -T > peflags-t.out Note particularly the base

Confusion re: use of rebaseall vs. rebase to relieve BitDefender woes

2009-12-03 Thread Ed Gaines
Okay, I'm hoping someone can help me understand what I SHOULD have done to properly rebase cygwin 1.7 under Win 7 so it would make nice with BitDefender. As has been pointed out here before, the combination of cygwin 1.7 and BitDefender 2010 make for one unhappy little user. As a reminder, BitD