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jstraarup

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Re: Lazarus IDE won't start on Windows 7 64bit
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2017, 05:36:57 pm »
Finally! I have found the problem :-)

GDB immediately told me that it could not load some DLLs, and segfaulted.

The non-existing DLLs appears to be leftovers, from an old version of the surveillance application called "Digital Guardian".
It is some crap-ware that injects itself deep into the OS, and monitors all sort of stuff, like file transference.

It is very likely that a white-list exists, and this could be why all our "normal" programs was working perfectly.

I have yet to find a way to fix it, but now I can at least blame a borked installation of "Digital Guardian".

In any case, it is reason enough to justify giving any user with the problem a new PC. Which is likely to be the solution.

Thanks to everybody for the input, and especially to you Martin, for pointing me in the right direction. Much appreciated.

rvk

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Re: Lazarus IDE won't start on Windows 7 64bit
« Reply #31 on: June 28, 2017, 10:44:06 am »
It is some crap-ware that injects itself deep into the OS, and monitors all sort of stuff, like file transference.
And your state of the art "unmanageable" anti-virusscanner didn't pick up on that?  :P :P

Glad we now have a method to debug such things.
That was a good idea Martin.


 

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