From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27908 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2012 03:18:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 27897 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2012 03:18:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173011pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:17:47 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.2] ([unknown] [108.7.54.123]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M7A00GZJBTDOCCM@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:17:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <5004D952.7030004@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:18:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Install Crashes Windows References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00326.txt.bz2 On 7/16/2012 3:18 AM, Mark Geisert wrote: > Daniel Cowdery writes: >> For starters, I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit. >> I run the Setup.exe file and select all the extra modules I require (on > > Suggestion: First limit yourself to the modules setup.exe installs by default. > After that is working, you can always run setup.exe again to pick up the extra > modules needed. > >> top of the default install), the extra modules i install are; bison, >> make, automake, libiconv, libtool, python interpreter, gcc, g++, gdb. >> The installation progresses all the way through downloading all the files, >> then when it seems to be checking all the files it freezes then I get >> the windows blue screen of death. When the computer starts up again >> there is only the Cygwin libs it downloaded and half the installation in >> my C-Drive. I've tried repeating this installation 4 times now (after >> deleting all the old Cygwin files each time). I've disabled my AVG >> anti-virus software, and tried a different download mirror each time but >> still no luck. > > It's unlikely to be the downloading, but possibly could be something triggered > by the post-install scripts. Cygwin is entirely user-space; there are no device > drivers or other kernel-level parts to it. User-space code can't crash the > system. But there is specific software known to interact badly with Cygwin; we > call it BLODA. This also suggests that if you haven't updated your Windows environment and drivers lately, now would be a good time. It could resolve this problem for you too. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple