Windows Update hosed Cygwin

[Teun Burgers]

Hugh D. Hyatt wrote:

> Yesterday I installed several Win98 updates from the microsoft.com web
> site.  After re-booting (grrrrr!) Cygwin, Firefox and Thunderbird all
> gave fatal exception 0D at 0000:00010000.  After uninstalling those I was
> able to, everything was back to normal.  Here are the updates I installed
> and then uninstalled:
> 
> 	Mapped Drives Shutdown Update
> 	Root Certificates Update
> 	Windows Critical Update Notification 4.0
> 	Security Update for Windows 98 (KB891781)
> 	Security Update for Windows 98 (KB891711)
> 	Security Update for Windows 98 (KB888113)
> 	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB867282)
> 
> If I go back and trying applying them one at a time until I discover
> which one caused the trouble, I'll post a follow-up.

I had the same problem. The culprit is KB891711.
Googling for kb891711 and windows 98 will give more information.
Has nothing to do with cygwin.

Teun


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