strace seg faults

[Markus Moeller]

Hi,

  I installed cygwin with --no-admin on Windows 7 and get always a segfault 
when running strace. Is that a known issue ( I saw some old posts, but no 
indication of the cause) ?

$  uname -a

CYGWIN_NT-6.1 PC814049 2.6.1(0.305/5/3) 2016-12-16 11:55 x86_64 Cygwin



$ cygcheck  /usr/bin/strace.exe

C:\Users\Public\Documents\CYGWIN\bin\strace.exe

  C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll

        C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Console-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-DateTime-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Debug-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ErrorHandling-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Fibers-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Heap-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-NamedPipe-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Profile-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-String-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Util-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Core-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-winsvc-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Management-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Management-L2-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LocalRegistry-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-IO-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ThreadPool-L1-1-0.dll

    C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Interlocked-L1-1-0.dll

      C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-DelayLoad-L1-1-0.dll





$ gdb --args strace echo foo

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Reading symbols from strace...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

(gdb) run

Starting program: /usr/bin/strace echo foo

[New Thread 22480.0x6908]



Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0x0000000076c7c67c in KERNEL32!GetVolumePathNamesForVolumeNameW ()

   from /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll

(gdb) where

#0  0x0000000076c7c67c in KERNEL32!GetVolumePathNamesForVolumeNameW ()

   from /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll

#1  0x00000001800ca5c4 in dos_drive_mappings::dos_drive_mappings() ()

   from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll

#2  0x00000001800600c5 in cygwin_internal () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll

#3  0x0000000000402b50 in ?? ()

#4  0x00000000004074ba in ?? ()

#5  0x00000000004013ed in ?? ()

#6  0x000000000040152b in ?? ()

#7  0x0000000076c359cd in KERNEL32!BaseThreadInitThunk ()

   from /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll

#8  0x0000000076e6a561 in ntdll!RtlUserThreadStart ()

   from /cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll

#9  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

(gdb) quit

A debugging session is active.



        Inferior 1 [process 22480] will be killed.



Quit anyway? (y or n) y



Thank you
Markus




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