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Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date
Jan 29, 2009, 14:36 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Burton wrote:
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> 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.

msysgit does not install any drivers, so it cannot possibly be the cause of any BSOD.

> Has anyone else seen this?

It's usually bad hardware or a bad driver. (VMWare is virtual hardware, so buggy versions count as "bad hardware")

Either of the above can cause problems that appear and disappear based on unrelated factors, which makes them hard to track down. But if it's a BSOD, the root cause is not msysgit.

Peter Harris
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  3. John ChapmanJan 29, 2009
  4. Peter HarrisJan 29, 2009
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