rustc fails to build trivial hello world program; cargo build always fails : exit code: 0xc0000005, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

[abhijitsahu]

Verification

• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen%2Cclosed and found no duplicates.
• I am on the latest version of Rustup according to https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/tags and am still able to reproduce my issue.

Problem

Hi,

I have installed latest rustup-init.exe. Always i am getting build issue as below exit code: 0xc0000005, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. I have tried to reinstall couple of times still did not workout.

PS D:\rust-example> cargo new ex03
    Creating binary (application) `ex03` package
note: see more `Cargo.toml` keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
PS D:\rust-example> cd .\ex03\

PS D:\rust-example\ex03> cargo --version
cargo 1.83.0 (5ffbef321 2024-10-29)

PS D:\rust-example\ex03> rustc --version
rustc 1.83.0 (90b35a623 2024-11-26)

PS D:\rust-example\ex03> cargo build
   Compiling ex03 v0.1.0 (D:\rust-example\ex03)
error: could not compile `ex03` (bin "ex03")

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\LENOVO\.rustup\toolchains\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\bin\rustc.exe --crate-name ex03 --edition=2021 src/main.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --diagnostic-width=237 --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C embed-bitcode=no -C debuginfo=2 --check-cfg cfg(docsrs) --check-cfg "cfg(feature, values())" -C metadata=3c538b4ef1d2d27e --out-dir D:\rust-example\ex03\target\debug\deps -C incremental=D:\rust-example\ex03\target\debug\incremental -L dependency=D:\rust-example\ex03\target\debug\deps` (exit code: 0xc0000005, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION)
PS D:\rust-example\ex03> 

Could you please help?

Steps

1. Download and install rustup-init.exe from install exe from here
2. Create a sample project cargo new ex03
3. Perform cargo build

Issue: It never build success. Always getting error as exit code: 0xc0000005, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION.

Possible Solution(s)

No response

Notes

I have tried to install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu and checked however still did not worked out.

Windows Version:

Rustup version

cargo 1.83.0 (5ffbef321 2024-10-29)

Installed toolchains

Default host: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
rustup home:  C:\Users\LENOVO\.rustup

stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc (default)
rustc 1.83.0 (90b35a623 2024-11-26)

OS version

Windows 11 Pro OS,  Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.2605)

C:\Windows\System32>wmic os get osarchitecture
OSArchitecture
64-bit

[abhijitsahu]

Tried reinstall two to three times with reboot and verified System Environment Variables PATH set properly C:\Users\LENOVO\.cargo\bin . Also checked C:\Users\LENOVO\.rustup which looks okay.
However always i got cargo build always fails : exit code: 0xc0000005, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

[ChrisDenton]

This is almost certainly not a rustup issue. You might have better luck reporting on the main rust repository. My guess would be you have a hardware issue. Getting STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION on an "Hello World" application is not ordinary and usually indicates some sort of corruption in the CPU, memory or disk.

[rami3l]

@rustbot transfer rust-lang/rust

[rami3l]

@abhijitsahu Unfortunately, there seems to be a high probability that you have encountered a hardware fault: #134119

[abhijitsahu]

#135114 (comment) : @ChrisDenton
#135114 (comment) : @rami3l
Thanks for your feedback. However when i check DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth and sfc /scannow did not found system files for any inconsistencies or corruption. Neither i encountered any hardware fault : 134119.
How can we ensure usually indicates some sort of corruption in the CPU, memory or disk ?

system-check.txt

You might have better luck reporting on the main rust repository.
Thanks @ChrisDenton You mean i need to report this issue here ?

[rami3l]

Thanks @ChrisDenton You mean i need to report this issue here ?

@abhijitsahu I have transferred this issue to rust-lang/rust for you; there are no extra steps to be taken on your side in this regard.

[jieyouxu]

Are you able to build a hello_world.rs without cargo, just using rustc? I.e.

// hello_world.rs
fn main() {
    println!("hello world");
}

rustc hello_world.rs

[jieyouxu]

You may also want to try:

• Are you able to build a C hello world program with msvc?
• Does the access violation happen consistently, or does it happen sometimes? E.g. if you cargo build -> cargo clean in a loop multiple times, does it always STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION?

[abhijitsahu]

Hello @jieyouxu , Thanks for your analysis and inputs.
#135114 (comment):
No rustc hello_world.rs does not work either. Here is the output.

#135114 (comment):
Are you able to build a C hello world program with msvc?
=> Not very sure to build a C hello world program with msvc by linking stdlib and std include. However i have tried with MinGW gcc compiler to build a C hello world program just works fine.

Does the access violation happen consistently, or does it happen sometimes? E.g. if you cargo build -> cargo clean in a loop multiple times, does it always STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION?
==> Yes access violation happen consistently. cargo build -> cargo clean in a loop multiple times does the same issue.

[abhijitsahu]

@jieyouxu Please let me know if you need more info or investigation from my end.