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RE: exception while starting cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:19:03 -0000
- Subject: RE: exception while starting cygwin
cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I install cygwin without errors. After that, I want to start cygwin with
> cygwin.bat, but nothing happens.
> When I start cygwin.bat under a tracesoftware (TRACEPLUS), I got this
> output:
> An exception occured in process bash at address 0x77E7B702.
> The type of exception is: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>
> Why I get these exception?
> Path: C:\Tcl\bin
> C:\WINNT\system32
> C:\WINNT
> C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
> C:\Programme\Support Tools\
> C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin
> C:\cygwin
> C:\cygwin\bin
Most likely it's because you have lots of unix-tools in your $PATH setting
ahead of the cygwin ones, and they aren't compatible, and something is
crashing as a result.
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\cat.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\cat.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\cp.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\cp.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
> Not Found: cpp (good!)
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\find.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\find.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
> Not Found: gcc
> Not Found: gdb
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\grep.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\grep.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
> Not Found: ld
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\ls.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\ls.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\make.exe
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\mv.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\mv.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\rm.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\rm.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\sed.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\sed.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
> Not Found: sh
> Found: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\tar.exe
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
> Warning: C:\Programme\unix-tools\usr\local\wbin\tar.exe hides
> C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
There's no way the bash startup scripts are going to work correctly when all
those commands are over-ridden by non-cygwin versions.
cheers,
DaveK
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