Re: Can't run baseall

[Don Edvalson <don at edvalson dot net>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 May 2006 13:52, Don Edvalson wrote:
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> > I tried the solution mentioned above, but it didn't help. However it did
> > put me on the right track. I started carefully killing Windows
> > processes. After I had killed enough of them, Cygwin started working
> > perfectly again and I could do my compiles. So I think I was looking in
> > the wrong direction with rebase in the first place. I am still narrowing
> > it down, but I found that two pieces of hardware I had added lately, a
> > webcam and a Sprint Wireless network connection were running lots of
> > processes all the time, even when that hardware was not installed or
> > running. I believe the culprit is one of these. When I figure out
> > exactly what process was causing this, I will let you know.
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>   Webcam?  Webcam!  Did you say "webcam"?  Did you say *Logitech* webcam?
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00173.html
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> and subsequent thread....
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>     cheers,
>       DaveK

That would appear to be exactly what I ran into. I now feel really 
stupid for not finding this before posting. I performed several 
searches, but they were all based on can't fork problems. Sorry to have 
bothered everyone, but thanks for all your great help.

DOn


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