On Jan 15 22:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 15 15:04, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > Alexander Smith wrote: > > > > > I am running Vista Home Premium x64. After checking the BLODA > > > <http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda>, I > > > turned off Windows Defender. I also tried running rebaseall, but > > > that still didn't help. Below is a list of the steps I followed > > > to try to install cygwin, and the errors I got. I also had > > > trouble running cygcheck (see #7, below). > > > > > > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\Wow6 > > > > Yep, happens every time on My Vista 64b HP. > > Just for fun, run the 32 bit regedit (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regedit.exe) > and have a grand day out looking what a 32 bit application sees when > looking into the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node. Have > something to drink with you, it could take some time... > > FWIW, I'm running a Vista 64 test machine and Cygwin runs fine.
I applied a patch to cygcheck in CVS which avoids the recursion due to the funny behaviour of the Wow6432Node in 32 bit mode. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
