xmgrace fails to start

Tue Jul 18 19:41:00 GMT 2006

On 18 July 2006 18:34, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Charles L. Werner wrote:
>> In addition, I ran strace with xmgrace,
>> and got the following message:
>>>> Process 3996, exception 40000005 at 7C81EB33
>>>> and an error in a box 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem:
>>>> /usr/share/grace/bin
>> The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
>> CS:0674 IP:01c7 OP:fe95 b8 ff ff
>>>>> Sounds like something is being executed that's not executable.

 Almost certainly a symlink.
 Check whether it still has the System and Hidden attributes set in the
windows properties, and the --x bit set in the unix perms.
 cheers,
 DaveK
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