From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygheap base mismatch detected
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB8Xom9nR9g=R_uzzZM5D+OHZ3wQhkJ+F5tAKBL0xL60iTc9rA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301105139.GF2257@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 29 14:30, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> I've been running into a strange "error" lately (that is, I first
>> noticed it for sure on 1.7.10, but it MIGHT have occurred also on 1.7.9.
>> It persists on 1.7.11). cygcheck -- and *only* cygcheck -- is reporting
>> a cygheap base mismatch but only on an XP64 machine:
>>
>> $ cygcheck -cd cygwin
>> 1 [main] cygcheck (3756) C:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe: *** fatal
>> error - cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x61270870/0x2170870.
>> This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the
>> cygwin DLL.
>> Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
>> and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version
>> *should*
>> reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
>> installed the cygwin distribution. Rebooting is also suggested if you
>> are unable to find another cygwin DLL.
>> Cygwin Package Information
>> Package Version
>> cygwin 1.7.11-1
>>
>> (Note that cygcheck actually *does* complete the requested command,
>> after the error message from (cygwin1.dll/dcrt0.cc?) is printed.
>
> Very strange. For two reasons. First of all, why is the mismatch
> message printed at all? The code in question is basically:
>
> if (res->cygheap != (void *) &_cygheap_start)
> multiple_cygwin_problem (...);
0x61270870 != 0x2170870
>
> But res->cygheap and &_cygheap_start are apparently identical, so why
> is multiple_cygwin_problem called?
>
> And then multiple_cygwin_problem calls api_fatal to print the message
> which means that ultimately TerminateProcess() is called.
>
> I tried that on my XP64 test machine and cygcheck worked fine.
>
> Could you do a parallel installation on the same machine and see how it
> behaves there?
>
>
> Corinna
>
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-29 21:19 Charles Wilson
2012-02-29 23:23 ` marco atzeri
2012-03-01 5:56 ` Heiko Elger
2012-03-01 7:03 ` marco atzeri
2012-03-01 10:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-03-01 10:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-03-01 10:59 ` marco atzeri [this message]
2012-03-01 12:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-03-01 22:44 ` Charles Wilson
2012-03-02 9:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-03-02 17:11 ` Charles Wilson
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2018-03-02 8:14 ignace danneels
2018-03-02 9:39 ` Marco Atzeri
2012-07-18 0:03 Andrew DeFaria
2012-07-18 1:56 ` Reini Urban
2012-07-18 2:37 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-07-18 15:04 ` Reini Urban
2012-07-18 18:16 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-07-18 18:38 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-18 19:03 ` Andrew DeFaria
2006-02-21 17:40 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-21 16:10 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-21 16:37 ` Brian Dessent
2006-02-21 19:18 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
2006-02-19 3:34 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-19 18:41 ` Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
2006-02-20 5:26 ` Mark Geisert
2006-02-20 5:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-21 21:56 ` Jason Tishler
2006-02-17 22:56 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-17 22:33 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-18 14:33 ` Mark Geisert
2006-02-17 17:43 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-16 23:45 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-17 10:23 ` Dave Korn
2006-02-16 22:05 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-16 19:38 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-16 20:06 ` Chris Taylor
2006-02-16 18:36 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-16 19:50 ` Dave Korn
2006-02-16 8:40 Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
2006-02-16 17:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-16 18:08 ` Dave Korn
2005-04-07 10:35 Andreas Heckel
2005-04-07 13:25 ` Dave Korn
2006-02-15 23:49 ` Jens Dill
2006-02-15 23:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-02-16 10:42 ` Dave Korn
2005-04-08 0:10 ` Mark Hadfield
2005-04-08 7:35 ` Andreas Heckel
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