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Re: 1.7.1 "Bad Address" when running cmd.exe on 64 bit windows server 2008
- From: <jenniferlee at nc dot rr dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:50:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: 1.7.1 "Bad Address" when running cmd.exe on 64 bit windows server 2008
- Sensitivity: Normal
Hi - I found that this error occurs on a 32 bit windows system, so its not 64 bit related as I initially thought. The problem is only occurring in Cygwin 1.7.1, not 1.5.24 so I will use the older version of cygwin until there is a fix for this.
Thanks
---- jenniferlee@nc.rr.com wrote:
> Hi - I am trying to run various windows commands from an ssh session to my Windows 2008 64 bit server running Cygwin 1.7.1.
>
> Everything I run with 'cmd.exe' fails with "bad address" as shown below, note that I can run the command natively without cmd.exe in the last example so in general things work, its just this cmd.exe that is causing my program to fail;
>
> Administrator@nc042046 ~
> $ cmd.exe /c 'mkdir C:\WINDOWS\temp'
> -bash: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/cmd.exe: Bad address
>
> Administrator@nc042046 ~
> $ cmd.exe /c hostname
> -bash: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/cmd.exe: Bad address
>
> Administrator@nc042046 ~
> $ hostname
> nc042046
>
> I've looked in all the forums, and I cannot find anything. I do see the support statement for 64 bit states "as well as the WOW64 32 bit environment on released 64 bit versions of Windows (XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/2008 R2). As far as we know no one is working on a native 64 bit version of Cygwin." but I am not sure exactly how to run or check that I am using the WOW64 32 bit environment. I do suspect the problem is related to 64 bit as others have told me this is working fine on their 32 bit systems.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Thank You
> Jennifer
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