core dump on rebaseall

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 02/24/2016 06:30 PM, Michael Steiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Chasing a vfork issue in emacs prevening on sub-shell or dired on a
> uptodate cygwin install, i followed the FAQ and tried to do a
> rebaseall.  Unfortunately, that resulted in a core dump with the
> rebase.exe.statckdump mentioning a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION problem!  I
> then also noticed, that an update with the latest version of the
> setup.exe also causes a rebase.exe.stackdump in c:\cygwin64!.
> Subsequent attempts rebasing in safe mode or after re-installing
> everything (via setup and click on All until it says re-install) had
> the same problem, as did upgrading cyginw, cygwin-debuginfo and
> cygwin-devel from the current 2.4.1-1 to 2.5.0.4 :-(   [The vfork
> problem in emacs, though, did disappear ..]
>
> I have cygwin running via a few months and didn't change anything in
> the config recently (although i did run setup to update to latest
> version). Unfortunately, i have no idea when setup also caused to
> coredump on rebase. It might have done it already for a while but as
> it doesn't complain, i have no idea when the rebase.exe.stackdump
> started showing up in c:\cygwin64.
>
> I googled for this problem but couldn't find any references to rebase
> itself failing.  Anybody has an idea what's going on and/or how to
> debug or work around?

Did you stop your services before upgrading/rebasing?  Do you have
any Cygwin executables or DLLs that aren't part of the distribution?


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Larry

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