cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

[Marco Atzeri]

On 10/17/2014 11:52 PM, John Wiersba wrote:
> With a 3-week-old (i.e. recent) install of cygwin, which otherwise functions well:
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 DESKTOP-NAME 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin
>
>
>
> $ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin cygcheck -s
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Fri Oct 17 17:37:27 2014
> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
> Path:   D:\cygwin\bin
>          D:\cygwin\bin
> Segmentation fault
>

it works fine here
$ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin cygcheck -s

Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Sat Oct 18 04:49:42 2014

Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1

Path:   E:\cygwin64\bin
         E:\cygwin64\bin

Output from E:\cygwin64\bin\id.exe
...
zlib0                                 1.2.8-1                OK

also from CMD prompt no issue.

> Also, I notice that when PATH has no :, cygcheck prints bogus information:
> $ PATH=/bin cygcheck -s
>
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Fri Oct 17 17:38:27 2014
> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
> Path:   D
>          \cygwin\bin
> Segmentation fault
>
>
> Running under gdb:
>
> $ PATH=/bin gdb cygcheck
[cut]
> (gdb) r -s
> Starting program: /bin/cygcheck -s
> [New Thread 5492.0x11ec]
>
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Fri Oct 17 17:46:49 2014
>
> Windows 7 Professional Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1
>
> Path:   D
>          \cygwin\bin
> [Inferior 1 (process 5492) exited with code 030000000005]
> (gdb)
>

BLODA ?

>
> All of this was in preparation for reporting another problem with run.exe (which flashes a console window instead of hiding it).
>
> Thanks!



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