Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-29 Thread Danilo Turina
I have done some other try. First of all I have uninstalled InterDrive 5.0 from FTP Software (a NFS client), I suspected that it caused many problems in my system (frequent crashes of explorer.exe, 3 minutes delay when loggin to my machine with telnet, blue screens (maybe)). Now trying disablin

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-28 Thread Ville Herva
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:16:23AM -0600, you [Daniel Armbrust] wrote: > Every time that I run the cygwin installer program, when it finishes > downloading packages, and moves to the install step, it bluescreen > crashes my Windows XP machine (service pack 1) with the following error: > > STOP: 0x

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:56, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> If you don't have McAfee installed, then I'll roll an Event Log >>> based setup for you. >> >> Why not just flush the logs to disc after each line? I'

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:56, Max Bowsher wrote: > Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you don't have McAfee installed, then I'll roll an Event Log based > > setup for you. > > Why not just flush the logs to disc after each line? I've got a patch lying > around here somewhere to do t

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 03:53, Daniel Armbrust wrote: >> Where can I get this? >> >>> >>> >>> If the NT 4 machine crashes every time, would you be willing to run >>> a special debug version of setup, that will write it's log entries >>> to the event log? T

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 02:09, Daniel Armbrust wrote: > One further clarification. It happens well before the > > Installation complete > [OK] > > step. It actually happens before any of the post download scripts run. > It happens when it is at (or nearly at) the very end o

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 03:53, Daniel Armbrust wrote: > Where can I get this? > > > > > > > If the NT 4 machine crashes every time, would you be willing to run a > > special debug version of setup, that will write it's log entries to the > > event log? They should be visible post install then, and y

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Peter A. Castro wrote: And, just to provide a counter example: I always run Norton AntiVirus with automatic / background scanning enabled. I generally have to, because of infected machines at work which probe the network whenever we get hit with the latest rash of viruses :(. I've done all my

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robb, Sam
> Anyone know of a tool (besides Purify) which could track all > the resource usages of a given program? Sysinternals has a great collection of tools for this sort of thing: Handle v2.01 http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml "This handy command-line utility will show you what fi

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, Chuck, Hi All! > Do I have to say it? > D'Oh! I feel this is really just masking the real problem. In my experiences doing development and testing under Windows, I feel that fault drivers are mostly what causes problems (someone else

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread John Vincent
Hi, I don't want to be accused of advertising, but we use SOPHOS in my office, and it doesn't interfere with the download/install processes or setup.exe at all. I've used it on NT, 2000, and XP. Just for information. /John. _ He

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Daniel Armbrust
One further clarification. It happens well before the Installation complete [OK] step. It actually happens before any of the post download scripts run. It happens when it is at (or nearly at) the very end of downloading the packages. After the blue screen, when I come back in, and just

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Frank-Michael Moser
(Danilo: Sorry for accidently sending my previous mail directly to you) Danilo Turina wrote: > Since 6/7 months I have 0x000a errors with my PC (Win2K SP3), the > problem is very simple: when XFree is running and there is a write to > /etc I got a blue screen. > Here are the steps I perfor

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:43, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > I recall being unhappy about having the list of pages in two places, and > > it's obvious why now. > > > > "List of pages in two places"? In main.cc we list the pages, create instances, and add to the propery sheet. So there is one list

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Danilo Turina
Since 6/7 months I have 0x000a errors with my PC (Win2K SP3), the problem is very simple: when XFree is running and there is a write to /etc I got a blue screen. Here are the steps I perform: * start XFree (XWin+WindowMaker+ all that is launched by startxwin.bat); * open a xterm; * touch

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Tim Prince
On Sunday 24 November 2002 14:35, Charles Wilson wrote: > Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit (or > asked the obvious question): > > Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running > while setup.exe was executed? > > I *always* disable McAfee bef

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:05, Max Bowsher wrote: > > > > Works for me - quick coding! > > Cool. It's just a quick hack. There are some things it highlit about the > property page system. Garrry! > Uh-oh! ;-) > I recall being unhappy about having the list of pages in two places, and > it's obviou

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> >Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running while > >setup.exe was executed? > > > >I *always* disable McAfee before running setup. Every time I forget, I > >get a bluescreen. Minidump analysis shows that the fault is in fact > >McAfee -- which runs in kernel mode -- a

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:05, Max Bowsher wrote: > Works for me - quick coding! Cool. It's just a quick hack. There are some things it highlit about the property page system. Garrry! I recall being unhappy about having the list of pages in two places, and it's obvious why now. Heres the curren

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:35, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit >> (or asked the obvious question): >> >> Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running >> while setup.exe was

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:35, Charles Wilson wrote: > Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit (or > asked the obvious question): > > Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running > while setup.exe was executed? Doh. Ok, setup HEAD will now ask a

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:52, Randall R Schulz wrote: > If KB 195857 really is the culprit here, then I suppose you could well make > the case that opening a lot of system handles and then just abandoning them > is not good programming practice and really should be resolved on its own > merits.

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Chuck, Do I have to say it? D'Oh! At 14:35 2002-11-24, Charles Wilson wrote: Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit (or asked the obvious question): Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running while setup.exe was executed? I

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Charles Wilson
Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit (or asked the obvious question): Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running while setup.exe was executed? I *always* disable McAfee before running setup. Every time I forget, I get a bluescreen. Min

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Robert, I suppose you're right: I was too "enthusiastic" (does that qualify as a euphemism in this context?). Also, I must confess I didn't read the KB entry before my previous post. However, if this is really the result of that known problem in Windows, why have we heard so little of it here?

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:27, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Likewise, it cannot be the locus of a fix for such a problem. While I > certainly cannot speak for others who read this list, I doubt anyone is > going to a) be able to help you much to solve this situation, since it is > surely idiosyn

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
Daniel, In case it hasn't been made clear, if your system is Windows NT, 2000 or XP and it blue-screens, locks up or otherwise exhibits a symptom of a system failure, then software at the application level _cannot_ be to blame. Only code that executes with hardware privileges (CPU / instruction

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:16, Daniel Armbrust wrote: > Every time that I run the cygwin installer program, when it finishes > downloading packages, and moves to the install step, it bluescreen > crashes my Windows XP machine (service pack 1) with the following error: Does it creash before or after

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Daniel Armbrust
You guys sure are fast for a Sunday. Open source is great : ) I am surprised that I am this unlucky. Previously, I tried to track this problem down, and I thought that I had come across an FAQ that referenced cygwin causing Blue Screens, and the answer was basically you have bad drivers. This i

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Summary of what Daniel Armbrust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (too much to quote - all relevant): WinXP SP1, setup.exe seems to cause bluescreen STOP 0x0024, when finishing the download step and beginning the install step, if (many/any - this is unclear - can you clarify?) packages have been downl