Christopher Faylor wrote: > It sounds like you are conflating a serious STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION which > is known to occur on Windows 7 with your not-so-serious "Bash > initialization w/cygwin-1.7". not-so-serious? Cygwin 1.7 install is very broken because of this bug. Seems serious to me. Is anyone able to install a fresh 1.7 with the default settings and not have bash fail? If so, perhaps post cygcheck to compare? - Ian Kelling -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple