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Re: Perl instabilities
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Michael Lemke <lemkemch at t-online dot de>
- Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Perl instabilities
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Michael Lemke wrote:
> 4/27/03 17:43:09, "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de> wrote:
>
> >Hallo Michael,
> >
> >>>>>>>> 1924 [main] perl 898827 sync_with_child: child -861851(0xF0) died before initialization with status code 0xFFFFFFFF
> >>>>>>>> 2054 [main] perl 898827 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls
> >
> >>>Have you tried to rebase your installation?
> >>>Just type rebaseall in a bash shell.
> >
> >> What does that do? I remember some talk here but never
> >> understood it. Why would it be necessary?
> >
> >$ cat /usr/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.2.README | more
>
> Thanks. Did that and followed the instructions to rebaseall.
> Same result with perl. :-(
>
> I then installed Gerrit's debug version and set CYGWIN=error_start:d:\cygnus\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe
> However, that doesn't work at all. dumper or gdb, which I tried first, isn't called at all. Instead there
> is this perl process sitting around that can't be killed and prevents a clean shutdown of Windows.
> The CYGWIN setting above has worked for me before.
>
> I further noticed the cwd.dll library, in which perl dies, is part of perl.
> Michael
Michael,
If you're setting it from bash, make sure to escape the backslashes (or
use forward slashes). You might also have to set error_start before
starting any Cygwin processes (if I'm wrong, someone please correct me)...
Igor
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