First, thanks for digging further into this. I'm guessing that I am missing some of the developer pieces that assisted you in deducing from
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:28 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > Replying to myself, ahem... > > Mark Geisert wrote: > > You could try downgrading ncurses via Cygwin setup. Best case: things > > work. Worst > > case: things break but at a different address within the DLL. > > On another branch of this thread David reported that downgrading worked. We > still > don't know what the issue with current ncurses is, so I did try the following: > > > Another tack could be for somebody *on a working system* install the > > debuginfo for > > ncurses, figure out the exception's address *in the ncurses installed > > locally*, > > run 'more' under gdb after setting a breakpoint at that address. Poke > > around to > > see what ncurses is doing in that area. Maybe it's acting on a Windows > > result > > that's busted on the Windows preview. Or something else. Good luck with > > this > > route :-/. > > Here's the gdb session from my own Windows 10 machine... ... thank you for looking at this in gdb > > That is all the help/damage I can do at this point. > Cheers, > > ..mark I started setup today and observed that the only "pending" actions were a bunch of ncurses installs. I clicked ok ( and enabled source just in case :-) ) and watched the action begin. Uninstall libncurses-devel 6.0-11.20170617 (automatically added) Uninstall libncursesw10 6.0-11.20170617 (automatically added) Uninstall ncurses 6.0-11.20170617 (automatically added) Install libncurses++w10 6.1-1.20190727 Install libncurses++w10-src 6.1-1.20190727 (source) Install libncurses-devel 6.1-1.20190727 Install libncurses-devel-src 6.1-1.20190727 (source) Install libncursesw10 6.1-1.20190727 Install libncursesw10-src 6.1-1.20190727 (source) Install ncurses 6.1-1.20190727 Install ncurses-src 6.1-1.20190727 (source) both bash and more worked ( e.g. bash starts and more doesn't stack dump in this simple case c:\cygwin64>cd bin c:\cygwin64\bin>path c:\cygwin64\bin;%PATH% c:\cygwin64\bin>which which /usr/bin/which c:\cygwin64\bin>more < NUL c:\cygwin64\bin> looking back at the downgrade log I see Uninstall libncursesw10 6.1-1.20190727 (automatically added) Uninstall ncurses 6.1-1.20190727 (automatically added) so I think that I just upgraded to what I had before, not sure if something was corrupted before. I did search for ncurses in the cygcheck.out from before $ ag -i ncurses cygcheck.out 1248: 301k 2019/07/28 c:\cygwin64\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll - os=4.0 img=0.0 sys=5.2 1249: "cygncursesw-10.dll" v0.0 ts=2019-07-28 09:30 1969:libncursesw10 6.1-1.20190727 OK 2132:ncurses 6.1-1.20190727 OK -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
