fatal linking error

[intelfortran11]

Does anyone have any idea what is the solution for the linking error below?

"ifort: error #10273: Fatal error in C:\PROGRA~1\Intel\Compiler\11.0\066\fortran\
Bin\ia32\fortcom, terminated by 0xc0000142"

Thanks for your any comments/suggestions.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It's not a linking error - it's the compiler that has encountered a fatal internal error. The message suggests that something external "killed" the compiler process. Is this error repeatable?

[intelfortran11]

Quoting - Steve Lionel (Intel)

It's not a linking error - it's the compiler that has encountered a fatal internal error. The message suggests that something external "killed" the compiler process. Is this error repeatable?

Thanks Steve.

I tried several times and found out that the error was not repeatable. It occurred sometime but sometime it did not. However, when the error did not occurred, the executable file was not generated either. Still no clue.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The error number is "application failed to initialize properly", so something prevented the compiler from even starting up. You may have some other software running that is interfering with the compile process.

[intelfortran11]

I killed all the other apliations but the problem still exists. I guess one of the background programs may cause the problem. Is there anyway to identify which or what type of program causes the problem? Thanks

[TimP]

Remove programs which are notorious for such effects:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
If one or two of them are important to you, try them one at a time.
If it's one of the big 3 commercial antivirus, make sure you are running the current version; don't run it if you don't have update access, and not on an unsupported version of Windows.
In my own experience, Logitech driver may be OK, but not Logitech webcam itself.
FlashPlayer also is a bad actor, but it should be OK as long as it's not active.

Of course, you logged out or rebooted after one of these failures?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Try this - it may help. Open the compiler's Binia32 folder (something like C:Program FilesIntelCompiler11.0�74fortranBinia32). Rename ifort_libFNP.dll to ifort_libFNPX.dll. Now see if the problem is stiill there.