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Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

Subject: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

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5 messages between Jan 29, 2009 and Jan 29, 2009.

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Mark Burton· Jan 29, 2009, 11:54 UTC · lore

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

Christian MICHON· Jan 29, 2009, 12:18 UTC · re: Mark Burton · lore

Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

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 !

John Chapman· Jan 29, 2009, 12:27 UTC · re: Mark Burton · lore

Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

Is that a clean windows XP system in VMware - with how much RAM?
 - I just find it strange, because I've had a similar setup, but never
once got a crash like that.

Additionally, the BSOD is in the guest, and not the host?
 - if it is the host that is BSOD'ing, then go check your memory,
something's wierd there.

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:54 +0000, Mark Burton 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
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Peter Harris· Jan 29, 2009, 14:36 UTC · re: Mark Burton · lore

Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

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

Mark Burton· Jan 29, 2009, 14:41 UTC · re: Mark Burton · lore

Re: Sporadic BSOD with msys git?

Hi,

Thanks for the responses.

The crash is in the XP guest, not the host (the host is a Linux box).

The XP image is quite old and has had quite a lot of stuff installed/un-installed over time so I will try again using a fresh XP VM updated with all the latest M$ fixes.

Cheers,

Mark