Re: Bash startup problems on Windows 2008 server

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 25 14:11, Steinar Bang wrote:
> I tried installing cygwin (the current setup.exe from www.cygwin.com) on
> a freshly installed Windows 2008 server.
> 
> The installation started normally, and I didn't see anything strange
> until I was going to check up on the progress.  Then the cygwin setup
> window was gone.
> 
> There was no desktop icon, but there was a start menu entry.  When I
> selected the "Cygwin Bash Shell" entry, a command line window flashed up
> and disappeared.
> 
> I tried running the install again, using all defaults from the original
> install.  I got no error messages, but again no desktop icon was
> created.
> 
> Trying to select the start menu item, gave me the same command line
> window popping up, and then disappearing.
> 
> I started cmd.exe and ran bash, and got the following (which looks
> similar to what's displayed in the window that opens and disappears):
> 
> C:\Users\myuser>\cygwin\bin\bash
>       2 [main] bash 3832 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VI
> OLATION
>     480 [main] bash 3832 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bash.exe.sta
> ckdump
>  408620 [main] bash 3832 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VI
> OLATION
>  425466 [main] bash 3832 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state (
> probably corrupted stack)
> 
> Anyone has any idea what might be wrong here?

No.  This has been reported at least twice already, but personally I
can't reproduce it, neither on my two 2008 i386, nor on my 2008 x86_64
system.  Somebody, who can reproduce this problem will have to debug
this problem.


Corinna

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