Re: Can't run baseall

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Don Edvalson wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> > Right.  Starting from the beginning and looking at the simplest/most 
> > common
> > potential causes makes the most sense.  And providing as much detail as
> > possible about what's going on is a good idea as well.  However, if 
> > the more
> > obvious solutions don't help, then you might want to consider this 
> > option:
> >
> > <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>
>
> Larry,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for the help.


Glad it helped get you back running.

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