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RE: xmgrace fails to start


On 18 July 2006 18:34, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Charles L. Werner wrote:
>> In addition, I ran strace with xmgrace,
>> and got the following message:
>> 
>> Process 3996, exception 40000005 at 7C81EB33
>> 
>> and an error in a box 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem:
>> 
>> /usr/share/grace/bin
>> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
>> CS:0674 IP:01c7 OP:fe95 b8 ff ff
>> 
> 
> 
> Sounds like something is being executed that's not executable.

  Almost certainly a symlink.

  Check whether it still has the System and Hidden attributes set in the
windows properties, and the --x bit set in the unix perms.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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