> On Aug 13 16:37, Frank Spies wrote: > > i have the same problem with the cygwin install spawning 1000s of > > processes on win x64 reported in a post on 28 july .. > > > > i did not see anybody responding with a fix or a workaround > > does anybody have an idea how to get cygwin up and running on win x64 ? > > I've applied a potential fix to Cygwin. Could you (and others using > a 64 bit Windows) please test the latest Cygwin snapshot 2005-Aug-14 > from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Report back if it solves the problem or if not, please provide a > simple, reproducible situation which allows us further testing. > > > Thanks, > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com > Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
The snapshot works fine, at least for me. Just run clear.exe or gconftool-2.exe to reproduce the problem. To get cygwin installed the first place: don't select the GConftool2 package as gconftool-2.exe would then run in the postinstall scripts. Thanks, Ollie Walsh -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/