Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/09/01:27:27
On 3/8/06, Larrie Carr <larrie AT telus DOT net> wrote:
> From: "Timothy King"
> > Last night, I grabbed an additional package using setup.exe. It also
> > downloaded and installed the latest cygwin1.dll (1.5.19-4) and core
> > utilities. I had not updated since early January. While it was running
> > the post-install script, I received serveral errors along the lines of
> > "... could not be found in cygwin1.dll". I rebooted, and now when I run
> > the bash shell, it drops me in /usr/bin and I have no Cygwin directories
> > in my path (/bin, /usr/bin). Also, my term colors are now messed up.
> >
> > I did a diff on the /etc and /home directories which I had backed up, but
> > there were no differences in the config files. I also did not find any
> > other cygwin1.dll's on my system. It is interesting to note I have the
> > cygwin sshd running on that machine, and when I ssh into it I have no
> > problems with paths or term colors.
> >
> > This is running on Windows XP Pro. I know my way around Unix but I know
> > little about how the Cygwin shell runs on windows. I tried adding the
> > Cygwin paths in my .bashrc, but now it barfs on the spaces in the Windows
> > directory names.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Tim
>
> I had this problem a couple of months ago. My problem was caused by the
> setup.exe being very helpful and (at least for me) defaulting to always
> installing the latest version of anything you already had installed. And if
> you don't look at the right page, you don't know this is happening.
>
> So normally I don't exit out of all my cygwin stuff when I am just
> installing a simple package (like octave). But for that one moment,
> setup.exe decided that the cygwin dll, et al had to be touched.
>
> If you attempt to updated cygwin when cygwin (bash) is running, the
> cygwin.dll is locked. So you can get updates to programs like rm that need
> that new cygwin.dll so everytime you run rm, you get this "missing blah
> ..could nto be found in cygwin1.dll".
>
> But you are hooped because setup.exe assumes that everything works (like rm)
> so if you try to reinstall with setup.exe, you are stuck.
>
> My fix was to exit out of all cygwin programs and in cmd, go looking for the
> cygwin1.dll (assuming c: drive)
>
> dir c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll*
>
> you should find a cygwin1.dll and a cygwin1.dll.new - move the cygwin1.dll
> to cygwin1.dll.old and cygwin1.dll.new to cygwin1.dll. If you see any other
> .new files, you might want to do the same.
>
> Then I reinstalled using setup.exe all the cygwin tools again (core, etc) so
> that everything could run to completion successfully.
>
> If you don't find the cygwin1.dll.new file, then my problem was not your
> problem (MPNYP).
>
> Larrie.
Thanks for the response, but it doesn't seem to be the same problem.
I do not have any .new files in c:\cygwin\bin. I've tried
re-downloading and re-installing the the core (making sure I'm not
using the shell at the same time), but still have the problem.
Tim
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