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 Message-ID: <43727E33.6020909@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:54:43 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Worrell CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kevin Worrell wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP but when I try to run > cygwin I get an error saying “This application (bash.exe) has failed to > start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application > may fix this problem.” > > I also got a similar message during the initial installation and it > keeps coming up on attempted re-installations (when I tried > re-installing the default packages). After checking the FAQs I > identified the cygwin1.dll in the cygwin package and have tried to > install it specifically on the Select Packages setup page by switching > the toggle button from ‘skip’ to ‘1.5.18-1.’ When I click next, the > setup detects additional dependent packages that need to be downloaded, > but when I continue I get one of the following two errors: > > “Fatal error: uncaught exception > Thread: install > Type: St16invalid_argument > Message: URL Scheme not registered!” > > or “Can’t open (null) for reading: no such file” > > What am I doing wrong? I also found a similar problem in the mailing > list archives, entitled “Error while installing cygwin” from Abhinav > Varshney, dated 11/5/05. Thanks for any help that you can give. > > Additional info: > setup.exe version 2.510.2.2 > cygwin dll release version 1.5.18-1 How about cygcheck output as requested by: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html As to the 'setup.exe' problem, was there anything "interesting" that showed up in setup.log or setup.log.full? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/