Crash running Cygwin bash shell under XEmacs

I had a need to run something on my Windows machine today which required a newer version of Cygwin than the ancient one that was installed there. After I upgraded to the current version (1.7.9) I can't start a shell in XEmacs (via M-X shell) using Cygwin's version of bash. When I try to do so I get Process bash.exe exited abnormally with code 35584 3 [sig] bash 1168 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 1556 [sig] bash 1168 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bash.exe.stackdump The stack dump is uninteresting except that the crash happens at offset 0x169220 in cygwin1.dll. It appears that this crash happens very early on, before it's read /etc/profile. I see that I also have similar stack dumps from other programs (find.exe and xargs.exe) in the XEmacs directory all exactly the same. I installed the latest Windows version of XEmacs from the installer at <http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/binaries/win32/InnoSetup/XEmacs_Setup_21... and tried starting it with --vanilla. This didn't make any difference. I also did a clean install of Cygwin 1.7.9 in case there was any crud left around from the old version. This also didn't help. I'm running on an old Dell with Windows XP Professional SP3. Perhaps that's the problem. I probably should install Windows on my Mac under one of the emulators, but that's more than I want to get into right now. I've Googled around a bit and although others have seen this problem, none of the solutions (mostly involving changing ownership of Cygwin files and running rebaseall) did any good. The bash shell runs fine when I start it using the .bat file installed by Cygwin, so it's basically working, but it won't run in an XEmacs shell window. Has anyone else seen this or know how to fix it? This little episode reminds me why I avoid using Windows, but sometimes it's necessary. Mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta