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Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

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Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 29, 2009, 12:18 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I occasionally have to use Windows (XP under VMWare) and thought I would try
> out msysgit so I installed the recent version (1.6.1). For what I was
> wanting to use it for, it worked OK.
>
> However, I then started getting crashes when using the Windows explorer. I would
> click on a folder to look at its contents and, whammo, Windows would crash. It
> just happened every now and again, not all the time.
>
> I uninstalled msysgit and now the crashes are not happening any more. Not
> exactly conclusive evidence but, perhaps, there's an issue there?
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
> --
no, never on virtual machines, nor on real systems (xp+vista).

could you try on a freshly installed version of xp inside a vm ? maybe also provide please the release details (os, msysgit, etc...)

a test case allowing to reproduce with predictability would be also welcome...
-- 
Christian
--
http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !
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