Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:06:49 -0800 From: David Hinds To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A vexing installation problem Message-ID: <20041129220649.GA26502@sonic.net> References: <20041129071451.GA15469@sonic.net> <6.2.0.14.0.20041129115158.046c9120@pop.prospeed.net> <20041129184442.GA30302@sonic.net> <20041129185016.GA32114@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041129185016.GA32114@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 15:34:00 PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Sounds like you haven't read http://cygwin.com/problems.html, in that > case. I read it quickly for exactly this reason, and then misinterpreted "just attach it as a straight text file". Just a moment of idiocy. > cygcheck already told us that there were no duplicate cygwin1.dll's on > your path. You need to look for other cygwin1.dll's throughout your > system. Ok, I've done that too. > Try removing things from your environment like HOME, HOMEPATH, TEMP, > etc. and make your PATH as minimal as possible. I've removed everything from my environment excepth PATH=. which seems about as minimal as it can get. Actually, unsetting PATH completely gives the same behavior; that's slightly disconcerting. > If that doesn't work, entirely wipe out c:\local\cygwin, run regedit, > and remove the "HKLM/Cygnus Solutions" and the HKCU/Cygnus Solutions > keys entirely. Then reboot and try reinstalling just a minimal > installation. I've tried exactly that, several times, removing all Cyg* keys. > Also try installing as another user. I can't easily do this one at the moment. The best clue I have at the moment is that a 1.5.5-1 cygwin1.dll appears to be fully functional, but a 1.5.6-1 cygwin1.dll with the same (old) executables is fully nonfunctional. All 1.3.* releases seem ok; and newer 1.5.* releases (1.5.9-1, 1.5.11-1, 1.5.12-1) all have exactly the same behavior as 1.5.6-1. C:\>set PATH=. C:\>copy cyg-1.5.6.dll cygwin1.dll 1 file(s) copied. C:\>mount C:\>copy cyg-1.5.5.dll cygwin1.dll Overwrite cygwin1.dll? (Yes/No/All): y 1 file(s) copied. C:\>mount c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) h: on /cygdrive/h type user (textmode,noumount) -- Dave -- 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/