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Re: FCNTL.DLL causes illegal instruction w/ perl since upgrade


"Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk> wrote:

>> I recently upgraded to version 2.340.2.5 of cygwin on Win 98 SE
>> and am seeing the following behavior:
>
>BTW, that version number above is the setup.exe version you used to install
>Cygwin. To get the Cygwin version number you can run either of these
>
>$ uname -r
>$ cygcheck -c cygwin

Here is the info:

$ uname -r
1.3.22(0.78/3/2)

$ cygcheck -c cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
cygwin               1.3.22-1

>from a Cygwin prompt.
>
>> anything having to do with fcntl.dll generates the following error in
>> Windows (not an error from the cygwin console):
>>
>> This program has perfromed an illegal operation and will be
>> shutdown. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor:
>>
>> PERL caused an invalid page fault in
>> module FCNTL.DLL at 017f:00b93198.
>> Registers:
>> EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=00b93198 EFLGS=00010246
>> EBX=00b96000 SS=0187 ESP=0073f558 EBP=0073f560
>> ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=00b9479c FS=4867
>> EDX=8178beb4 ES=0187 EDI=610d1fd8 GS=0000
>> Bytes at CS:EIP:
>> 8b 11 85 d2 74 15 89 f6 39 5a 0c 74 60 8b 42 14
>> Stack dump:
>> 10120ee8 00000002 0073f570 00b91042 00b96000 0073f5d0
>> 0073f580 61009903 00ba0000 00b90000 0073f5d0 61009d42
>> 00ba0008 0073f598 0000001c 4e495747
>>
>> This type of error message can be generated from something as
>> simple as "perldoc -f print" to the following example script:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> use warnings;
>> use strict;
>> use Fcntl;
>> #use GDBM_File;
>> #use File::Basename;
>>
>> # Global Variables - Section to change
>> #
>> my($hostname, $os, $kjp, $hw, $uplength, %thehost, @egz, %hostpatches);
>> my(@patchlist, @rootpatchlist, %hostrootpatches, $update,
>@sortrootpatchlist);
>>
>> my @efiles = qw(one
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? two
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? three);
>> @egz = qw(foo);
>>
>> foreach my $j (@egz) {
>> ? ? ? ? foreach my $i (@efiles) {
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? system("ls");
>> ? ? ? ? }
>> }
>>
>> If I comment out use Fcntl; - the error does not occur. If I click on OK
>> the script keeps on chugging and i get the desired results (My original
>> code was much more complex - i just do an ls here). In the example code
>> the error is generated in the foreach loop so I get it the error 3 times -
>> but it still chugs through. I found two Fcntl.dll: one for perl and one
>for
>> python. Here is the perl dll:
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x ? ?1 foo ? mkgroup ? ? 19968 Mar 30 12:18
>/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-
>> multi-64int/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.dll
>>
>> Is there another Fcntl.dll I should be looking for? Can anyone give me
>> direction on how to troubleshoot this problem further?
>
>This could be a rebase issue. Do you have apache installed? Even if you
>don't installing the 'rebase' package and running rebaseall might help you.
>Once you've downloaded/installed the package read
>/usr/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.2.README , which will give you instructions on how
>to run rebaseall.
>
>Elfyn


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